Productivity growth in OECD countries: A comparison with Malmquist indices

A profit Malmquist productivity index

In some situations the producers desire to maximize total profit of Decision Making Units (DMUs) while the inputs and outputs prices of DMUs change from one time period to another. In this paper, the researchers develop productivity index when producers are going to maximize total profit when the price of inputs and outputs are known.The proposed method uses all price information about inputs a...

Developing Countries and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture: New Evidence Using a Malmquist Index with Constrained Implicit Shadow Prices

Malmquist Productivity Index with Dynamic Network Structure

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) measures the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. DEA-based Malmquist productivity index measures the productivity change over time. We propose a dynamic DEA model involving network structure in each period within the framework a DEA. We have previously published the network DEA (NDEA) and the dynamic DEA ...

Telecommunication Industry and Productivity Convergence in the Oecd Countries

The telecommunication industry appears one of the driving force of the new economy, which is characterized by the diffusion of, information and communication technologies and their applications. So, the analysis of the productivity evolution in the telecommunication industry, for different countries, is the first step to understand the productive patterns of the national economies. In particula...

Productivity Change in the Telecommunications Industries of 13 OECD Countries

This paper focuses on the evolution of productivity in the telecommunications industries for 13 OECD countries over the period 1979-1998. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric approach that allows decompositions of changes in productivity into variations in efficiency and technical change. Moreover, it tests the existence of convergence in labor and total factor productivity level...