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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Total factor productivity (TFP)"”.
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Modeling and measuring technical change and productivity growth
… an alternative to the index number approach to total factor productivity (TFP) growth, incorporating recent theoretical developments in dynamic cost functions that shed light on the effects and role of quasi-fixed factors in the short-run of manufacturing.
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An updated TFP series for South African Agriculture with improvements to official data on land, labour, and machinery measurements
… substantial concerns about food security and productivity. This comprehensive study analyses these trends and their implications to offer insights for policy formulation to address these challenges. The analysis uses historical data from 1947 to 2020 to examine output, inputs, productivity …
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The structural preconditions for maximizing FDI spillovers in Colombia : a sectoral impact analysis of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Industry output, labor payments, firm productivity, and the productive structure (1995-2009)
… complementary to domestic firm profitability, productivity, and employment? Empirical literature has identified diverse channels through which FDI facilitates aggregate spillovers to the host economy-including total factor productivity (TFP) transfers, employment generation, as well as backward …
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The aggregate analysis of logistics cost and total factor productivity
… surveys the relationship of logistics cost and total factor productivity (TFP). The paper discusses the theoretical aspect of TFP growth estimation and the concept of logistics cost as percentage of GDP as the factor indicating efficiency in logistics operations. Calculation of TFP from …
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A system dynamics model for total-factor productivity measurement of the manufacturing system: its implications for JIT
… The model was designed and built to measure total-factor productivity (TFP) which represents a global performance measure of the manufacturing system. TFP captures the integrated, synergistic effect of the system variables and functions on global system performance. A major part of the …
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Convergence, productivity and industrial growth in China during the reform era
… by focusing on three issues: convergence, total factor productivity (TFP) and industrial growth. The study of convergence was undertaken using a panel of China’s 28 provinces over the period 1979-2004. The share of physical capital in China’s output was found to be 0.23 and the provinces …
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Studies on IT, Logistics, and the Structure of Production
… (DBL), and examines the relationship among DBL, total factor productivity (TFP), and value-added. We find that an industry’s IT investment reduces its production interdependence with suppliers and leads to greater value-added. The third essay explores the relationship between IT and the structure …
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Total factor productivity of tropical soybean-maize systems: the case of the safrinha crop system in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Improving agricultural productivity has been an important area of research to assure that the needs of a growing population do not outstrip the ability for producers to supply food. This growth in demand will mostly come from developing countries. The tension between producing more food and …
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An investigation into the impact of quality management systems upon construction productivity at the site level
… of Quality Management systems upon construction productivity. The main aim of the study was to establish a relationship between the Implementation of formal quality systems and improvement in productivity at the site level. The main objectives of the study are: to compare the construction …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Capital Flows
… model by adding a time-varying total factor productivity (TFP) volatility process and recursive preferences. The results show that the domestic household can accumulate more foreign assets, but also hedge better against domestic risk. The trade-off is a more volatile consumption …
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Productivity performance of US passenger airlines since deregulation
To evaluate US passenger airlines' productivity performance since the airline deregulation in 1978, this research measures and compares productivity at both the US airline industry and individual carrier levels. Productivity is measured at the aggregate airline industry level in terms of …
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Airport privatisation and performance
… to alternative capital projects. Partial factor productivity (PFP), total factor productivity (TFP) indicators and financial ratio analysis (FRA) outcomes are compared, in order to investigate differences which may be attributable to the degree of privatisation. The main results of PFP and …
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Essays on financial frictions with an application to the Chinese economy
… of resources and thus cause further losses on total factor productivity (TFP) and output during recessions. Quantitative analyses show that partial loan guarantees to SOEs are counterproductive in moderating the reaction of GDP to both risk and technology shocks. Chapter 3 develops a DSGE model …
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Technical Change, Market Structure and Intraindustry Trade Specialization: A Study of the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
… one analyzes the main features and historical factors that played a central role for the on process in Colombia during the twentieth century. Chapter two reviews the parametric and non-parametric methodologies to measure technical change. Chapter three uses a translog index to measure total …
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Essays in macroeconomics and corporate finance
… increased capital misallocation and decreased total factor productivity (TFP); an increased wedge between the average marginal product of capital and the interest rate; and increased riskiness of consumption. An endogenous decrease in the interest rate is shown to amplify these effects by …
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SSA's Development Delay: Three Essays on The Monetary System, The International Trade and Property Rights
… of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) theory of factor abundance and the increasing return to scale (IRS) theory of product differentiation in the bilateral trade within SSA. It shows that the similarity of the factors of production proportions and the lack of product differentiation reduce the …
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Total factor productivity in Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-1993
… study uses quantitative techniques to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth for three-digit non-oil manufacturing industries in Indonesia over the period 1975 to 1993. The thesis begins with a review of growth and structural change in Indonesian manufacturing. Next, a literature review …
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Total factor productivity in Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-1993
… study uses quantitative techniques to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth for three-digit non-oil manufacturing industries in Indonesia over the period 1975 to 1993. The thesis begins with a review of growth and structural change in Indonesian manufacturing. Next, a literature review …
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Is manufacturing the silver bullet engine of growth for South Africa?
… research also examined value added and labour productivity (LP) growth per sector from 1991 to 2021, which are proxies of economic performance. Using the vector autoregression (VAR) multivariate ordinary least squares (OLS) model, the Granger causality was examined to test for intersectoral …
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Territorial capital and firm performance: evidence from Italian regions
… is based on the derivation of a measure of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at firm level, where the contribution of factor inputs is estimated using a Cobb-Douglas production function. The analysis then focuses on the relationship between TFP and a set of different territorial resources at …
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