The authors apply Leif Johansen's (1972) dynamic production function framework to the development of the Finnish brewery industry over a thirty-year time span, 1955 to 1984, based on micro data (plants). The relationship between the micro-frontier and short-run industry production functions is...

Productivity growth during the deregulation of the Norwegian banking industry is studied within the framework of data envelopment analysis, which explicitly allows for multiple outputs. Introducing Malmquist indices for productivity growth, total growth can be decomposed into frontier growth and...