Institutions and efficiency in transition economies [PDF]
This paper analyzes the effects of political and economic institutions on efficiency of transition economies over the 1995-2005 period. Perpetual Inventory Method is used to construct capital series for these countries, and then stochastic production ...
Dang, V
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Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: An Array of Perspectives
ABSTRACT In this paper, we show how Törnqvist growth accounting in the open economy can be conducted from a number of different perspectives, depending on which input and output prices or quantities are chosen to be the explanatory factors. This approach offers a wide spectrum of decompositions, each one being potentially best suited to analyze ...
Ulrich Kohli
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Using Non-parametric Methods in Econometric Production Analysis: An Application to Polish Family Farms [PDF]
Econometric estimation of production functions is one of the most common methods in applied economic production analysis. These studies usually apply parametric estimation techniques, which obligate the researcher to specify the functional form of the ...
Czekaj, Tomasz, Henningsen, Arne
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Sustainability of Output Growth in Indian Manufacturing: A Decomposition Analysis of Selected Industries [PDF]
The present paper undertakes a decomposition analysis of the output growth of Indian manufacturing sector. Such an exercise becomes important in view of the non-sustainability of growth proposed by Krugman for the East Asian countries.
Gopinath Pradhan, Kaustuva Barik
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A multi-output analysis of the iron and steel industry [PDF]
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Turnovsky, Michelle H.
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Accounting for unobservables in production models:management and inefficiency [PDF]
This paper explores the role of unobserved managerial ability in production and its relationship with technical efficiency. Previous analyses of managerial ability have been based on strong assumptions about its role in production or on the use of ...
Antonio Álvarez +2 more
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INDIRECT UTILITY FUNCTIONS AND TESTABLE CONDITIONS [PDF]
We develop testable hypotheses for utility maximization given risk averse producers based on a general specification of the utility function. This is a direct expansion of the model posed by Pope (1978).
Detre, Joshua D., Foster, Kenneth A.
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Survey of Technical Efficiency Strawberry Producers in the City of Sanandaj [PDF]
Strawberry production in Kurdistan province, which produces more than 70 percent of the national production, is important from variety of aspects such as creation of employment and income for rural households.
Esmaeil Pishbahar, Akbar Nasiri
doaj
Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiencies in a Cost System: An Exact Maximum Likelihood Approach [PDF]
Estimation and decomposition of overall (economic) efficiency into technical and allocative components goes back to Farrell (1957). However, in a cross-sectional framework joint econometric estimation of efficiency components has been mostly confined to ...
Kumbhakar, Subal, Tsionas, Efthymios
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Consolidation, Scale Economics and Technological Change in Japanese Banking [PDF]
The paper examines the technological structure of the Japanese banking sector before the onset of the banking crisis and structural reforms of the 90s in order to shade light on the logic of the recent trend to consolidation in the industry.
Tadesse, Solomon
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