U.S. states during the 1977-1986 business cycle are found to have small but significant technical inefficiency in the private sector. Inefficiency is influenced by several factors, including prior economic performance, location, Hick labor augmenting technical progress in the manufacturing...

Using 1984-1989 firm level data from Vilnius, Lithuania, the industrial structure of a former Soviet city is examined for the first time. A combination of two panel data stochastic frontier methods is used to derive indices of relative technical inefficiency of firms within several branches in...