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Is the People's Republic of China's current slowdown a cyclical downturn or a long-term trend? : a productivity-based analysis

Bai, Chong-En; Zhang, Qiong - 2017

Whether the People's Republic of China's (PRC) economic slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis is a cyclical downturn or a long-run trend has important policy implications. Based on provincial panel data, this article identifies the determinants of productivity and uses counter-factual...

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A Frontier Approach to Canada-U.S. Multifactor Productivity Performance

Harchaoui, Tarek M. - 2009

as technical efficiency and results from 'catching up' to best-practice production technology; how much the North … type of innovation that brings best-practice technology into the country. The combined effect of these two changes yields a … extent to which firms are using production technology that places them behind the leaders. The results also suggest that …

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The importance of reallocation for productivity growth : evidence from European and US banking

Bos, Jaap W. B.; Santen, Peter C. van; Schilp, Paul - 2013

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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?

Ray, Saon - 2014

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses...

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Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia

Armundito, Erik; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Employing cleaned and balanced panel datasets for...

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The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries' production efficiency

Halkos, George E.; Managi, Shunsuke; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-13

occurrences impacts first countries' technological catch-up and then their technology change. …

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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015

This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) models by...

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Measuring economic growth using data envelopment analysis

Škare, Marinko; Rabar, Danijela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 386-406

Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...

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Do Technology and Efficiency Differences Determine Productivity?

Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2011

(ii) the underlying production technology is the same for all countries. We address these issues by estimating a …

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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs

Erber, Georg - 2008

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or nonneutralities...

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