Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture: A Malmquist Index Analysis of 93 Countries,1980-2000 [PDF]
In this paper we examine levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 93 developed and developing countries that account for a major portion of the world population and agricultural output.
D.S. Prasada Rao, Tim J. Coelli
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Polish banking industry efficiency: a DEA window analysis approach [PDF]
, 2006 The Polish banking industry has been transformed since the country’s transition to a market economy which began at the end of the 1980s. The industry has now developed and expanded to encompass more than 60 participants and it can thus be described ...
Nellis, Joseph G. +4 more
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Malmquist Index, an Alternative Technique for Measuring Credit Institutions Productivity [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2008 The present study tackles the banking system’s productivity in a more complex manner, that integrates multiple input, multiple output variables, abdicating from the reductionist perspective of clasical methods, which imposed limits in the number of ...
Nicolae Dardac, Iustina Alina Boitan
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Global Trends of Productivity Growth: Evidence from the Malmquist Index
East Asian Economic Review, 2008 This paper examines the trend of productivity growth in OECD countries by applying the Malmquist index. Our findings indicate that total factor productivity (TFP) growth in OECD countries was much more sluggish in the 1990s than in the 1980s.
Jeong Yeon Lee
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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition [PDF]
Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using Törnqvist input and output indexes, augmented by exogenous estimates of local returns to scale. However, in order to implement their method,
Fox, Kevin J., Diewert, Erwin
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PRODUCTIVITY OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN POLAND: A MALMQUIST-INDEX APPROACH
Ekonomika, 2010 The purpose of this article is to present the result of productivity analysis of university hospitals in Poland. The hospital sector, and especially the tertiary hospital subsector, are a large consumer of scarce health care resources, and it is of ...
Justyna Rój
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Sports resources utilization efficiency, productivity change, and regional production technology heterogeneity in Chinese Provinces: DEA-SBM and Malmquist Index Approaches. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Zhang H, Shi Y, Jiang X, Xu X, Shah WUH.
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The Global Trends of Total Factor Productivity. Evidence from the Nonparametric Malmquist Index Approach [PDF]
In this paper the Malmquist index of total factor productivity is applied to a sample of 87 countries observed over the period 1960-90. This index and the method needed to quantify it, the data envelopment analysis, has substantial advantages as compared
Jens J. Krüger
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, 2020 The Malmquist productivity index is based on distance functions, which are reciprocals of radial Debreu-Farrell efficiency measures, and which have a number of desirable properties.
J T Pastor +4 more
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Agricultural productivity and policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: [PDF]
We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index.
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin
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