Recent statistics from the OECD concerning productivity growth at the macroeconomic level show a sort of paradoxical shift in the relationship between the recent upheaval of real investment in new information technology and productivity growth. Table 1 represents the trends of productivity changes in both Japan and the U.S. during the periods 1960-90. Even if there were sizable new investment (...

The existing evidence for the effects of agricultural technological change on cropland use is inadequate to clarify the polarized views on whether encouraging technological progress would slow down the expansion of croplands into forests. This article seeks to inform these views by developing and estimating a model that links the changes in a country’s cropland to the changes in both domestic a...

Using 2605 Chinese A-share listed companies in the mining, manufacturing, and energy production supply sectors from 2009 to 2020, we examine relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) firm-level total factor productivity (TFP). The main findings are as follows: First, CPU significantly reduces TFP, with a greater impact on low-productivity firms than high-productivity firms; second, ...

T he purpose of this paper is the evaluation of suitability ofspatial error STAR model for modeling convergence of social welfare of Iran's provinces between 2000 and 2013. In this paper the LM tests show that the non-linear method is appropriate for convergence evaluation. In addition, the results indicate that 2 groups of provinces are separable: group 1 in which the social welfare...

This paper investigates the total factor productivity (TFP) performance of NWFP agriculture crop subsector from 1970 to 2004. It identifies the sources of growth of TFP growth and assesses TFP growth changes in agriculture crop sub-sector. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate the changes in the production frontier. The Malmquist productivity index has decomposed total fa...

Since the early 1960s, the Hong Kong Telephone Company (HKTC)—the dominant firm in Hong Kong’s local telephone market—has undergone several regulatory reforms. The company has been subject to price control, rate-of-return regulation and price-cap regulation. This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of HKTC. The empirical results show that the estimated TFP growth of HKTC ...

This study has estimated the total factor productivity (TFP) and its share in output growth, and returns to public investments on research in agriculture in India. The contribution of agricultural research in reducing real cost of production and attainment of food self-sufficiency has also been estimated for the country. The estimates of TFP have shown considerable variations across crops in di...

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) accounts for a sizable proportion of the income differences across countries. Two challenges remain to researchers aiming to explain these differences: on the one hand, TFP growth is hard to measure empirically; on the other hand, model uncertainty hampers consensus on its key determinants. This paper combines a non-parametric measure of TFP growth with Bayesian ...

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth in industrial manufacturing is measured for 15 major Indian states for the period 1982-83 to 2000-01 using non-parametric linear programming methods. TFP growth is decomposed into efficiency and technological changes and also measure for the bias in technical change. The resulting information is used to examine whether the post-reform period shows any impr...