This Handbook takes an econometric approach to the foundations of economic performance analysis. The focus is on the measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to quantify in practice. In real-life applications,...

1. Introduction- William H. Greene and Thijs ten Raa -- 2. Micro foundations of earnings differences- Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon W. Polachek -- 3. Performance: The output/input ratio- Thijs ten Raa -- 4. R&D, innovation and productivity- Pierre Mohnen -- 5. The choice of comparable DMUs and...

In this paper we aim to measure and to explain the frontier total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Tunisia over the period 1983-1996. We do not measure TFP growth by the conventional Solow residual. Instead we define TFP growth as the shift of the economy’s production frontier, which we...

In the late 1980s scholars of technological change were concerned about measuring more aspects of innovation than the mere information contained in the R&D surveys. They sat down under the auspices of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and wrote the so-called Oslo...