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Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 Background Farm productivity on smallholder family-owned crop farms remains low despite several interventions to transform agriculture especially in developing countries.
Nyarai M. Mujuru +3 more
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A Unified Approach to Estimating Production Functions: Proxy Variables and Dynamic Panel Data
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a new approach to production function estimation that integrates the strengths of the proxy‐variable (PV) and dynamic panel data (DPD) methods. Our framework augments the set of instruments for the level equation in Blundell and Bond [8] with a Berkson‐type instrument motivated by economic theory, following Olley and Pakes [28 ...
Jose Miguel Abito +1 more
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Decomposition of Factor Productivity Growth of Rice in Iran: Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approaches [PDF]
مجله اقتصاد و توسعه کشاورزیRice is a crucial agricultural product, and enhancing its productivity is essential for increasing production. This study aims to analyze the total factor productivity growth of rice production in Iran from 2000 to 2020.
S. Nikan +3 more
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using two approaches, we contribute to sub‐national economic performance measurement by netting out the influence of a region's performance on its industries. The first approach measures performance using technical efficiency and involves introducing the first multilevel spatial stochastic frontier model.
Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva
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GDP and GDI Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: Multiplicative Fisher Decompositions
Review of International Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most national statistical agencies still use chained Laspeyres indices in their national accounts, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and Statistics Canada have been at the forefront for the past two decades by using instead a superlative index—the Fisher index—when computing price and quantity indices for GDP and its components.
Ulrich Kohli
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Technical Change Through Global Value Chains: Evidence From Firms Worldwide
The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on firms' innovation, productivity, and other indicators of technical change. Our dataset encompasses heterogeneous firms from 144 countries at different income levels over the period 2006–2025.
Ivan Ledezma +1 more
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Monopsony Power: Evidence From China
Review of International Economics, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 632-657, August 2026.ABSTRACT We study the effect of trade liberalization on firms' monopsony power in the labor market. We estimate firm‐specific markdowns from production data in the manufacturing industry and document the trends in China between 1998 and 2007. Taking China's entry to the WTO as a policy shock, we use a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach combined ...
Pengzhan Qian, Dan Xie
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Trading Gains: Statistical Artifact or Economic Reality?
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT In a recent article published in this Review, Balk (2025) suggests that trading gains might just be a statistical artifact. This rather provocative proposition is in sharp contrast with the empirical evidence that trading gains (or losses) in open economies can exceed several percentage points of gross domestic product (GDP). The U.S.
Ulrich Kohli
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Agricultural and Food Science, 1994 The study presents an attempt to gain a better understanding of the input substitution and technological development on Finnish dairy farms. The dual approach of the neoclassical production and cost theory is applied.
Matti Ryhänen
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Economies of Scale, Efficient Scale and Elasticity of Substitution in Iran's Energy Intensive Industries [PDF]
Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2013 In this Study, We applied Translog cost function with four Input (Labor, Capital, Energy and Material) and ISUR[1]method for analysis of the cost structure of 11 most Energy intensive sub sector industries (With 4 Digit ISIC[2]code) of Manufacture of ...
mahammad nabi shahiki tash +2 more
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