Research classified by Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes

2008

• Michele Benvenuti & Elena Gennari, 2008, "Water services in Italy: implementation of the reform and efficiency of providers," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers), Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area, number 23, Sep.
• Maja Andrijašević, 2008, "Total Quality Accounting," Economic Annals, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Belgrade, volume 53, issue 176, pages 110-122, January -.
• Golfier, C., 2008, "Durée d’utilisation des équipements dans l’industrie manufacturière . Résultats de l’enquête 2007," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 170, pages 55-66.
• Yanling Wang & Chia‐Wen Chao, 2008, "“Spillovers” And Productivity: The Case Of The Taiwanese High‐Tech Firms," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 26, issue 2, pages 248-258, April, DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2007.00057.x.
• Robert Breunig & Marn‐Heong Wong, 2008, "A Richer Understanding of Australia's Productivity Performance in the 1990s: Improved Estimates Based Upon Firm‐Level Panel Data," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, volume 84, issue 265, pages 157-176, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00460.x.
• Donald R. Davis & David E. Weinstein, 2008, "A Search For Multiple Equilibria In Urban Industrial Structure," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, volume 48, issue 1, pages 29-65, February, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00545.x.
• Boris Lokshin & René Belderbos & Martin Carree, 2008, "The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, volume 70, issue 3, pages 399-413, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2008.00503.x.
• Daniel Wilson, 2008, "Investment Behavior Of U.S. Firms Over Heterogeneous Capital Goods: A Snapshot," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, volume 54, issue 2, pages 269-278, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2008.00273.x.
• Leif Danziger, 2008, "Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, volume 110, issue 3, pages 519-542, September, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00549.x.
• James E. Anderson & Yoto V. Yotov, 2008, "The Changing Incidence of Geography," Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics, number 698, Sep.
• James E. Anderson, 2008, "Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade," Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics, number 700, Dec.
• Panayiotis P. Athanasoglou & Evangelia A. Georgiou & Christos C. Staikouras, 2008, "Assessing Output and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry," Working Papers, Bank of Greece, number 92, Nov.
• Takuji Fueki & Takuji Kawamoto, 2008, "Does Information Technology Raise Japan's Productivity?," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series, Bank of Japan, number 08-E-8, Sep.
• Jonathan R. W. Temple, 2008, "The Calibration of CES Production Functions," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK, number 08/606, Sep.
• Tung Liu & Kui-Wai Li, 2008, "Revisiting Solow’s Decomposition of Economic and Productivity Growth," Working Papers, Ball State University, Department of Economics, number 200805, Dec, revised Dec 2008.
• Kui-Wai Li & Tung Liu & Lihong Yun, 2008, "Decomposition of Economic and Productivity Growth in Post-reform China," Working Papers, Ball State University, Department of Economics, number 200806, Dec, revised Dec 2008.
• Giorgia Maffini & Socrates Mokkas, 2008, "Transfer-pricing and Measured Productivity of Multinational Firms," Working Papers, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, number 0817.
• Jamasb, T. & Pollitt, M.G. & Triebs, T., 2008, "Productivity and Efficiency of US Gas Transmission Companies: A European Regulatory Perspective," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 0812, Mar.
• Roques, F.A., 2008, "Market Design for Generation Adequacy: Healing Causes rather than Symptoms," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 0821, Apr.
• Finon, D. & Roques, F., 2008, "Financing arrangements and industrial organisation for new nuclear build in electricity markets," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 0850, Sep.
• John Gibson & Bongguen Kim & Hengyun Ma & Les Oxley, 2008, "China’s Energy Economy: Technical Change, Factor Demand and Interfactor/Interfuel Substitution," Working Papers in Economics, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance, number 08/01, Mar.
• Hengyun Ma & Les Oxley & John Gibson, 2008, "Testing for Energy Market Integration in China," Working Papers in Economics, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance, number 08/12, Jun.
• Mehdi Farsi & Massimo Filippini, 2008, "An Analysis of Cost-Efficiency in Swiss Multi-utilities," CEPE Working paper series, CEPE Center for Energy Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich, number 08-60, May.
• Popescu, Radu & Sandu, Irina, 2008, "Industry or services ? (Industry and services' integration in global knowledge economy)," Revista de Economie Industriala (Journal of Industrial Eonomics), Centre for Industrial Economics and Services, volume 6, issue 1, pages 53-58, March.
• Marcos Gallacher, 2008, "The impact of human capital on firm-level input use: Argentine agriculture," CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo., Universidad del CEMA, number 380, Sep.
• Branislav Saxa, 2008, "Learning-by-Exporting or Managerial Quality? Evidence from the Czech Republic," CERGE-EI Working Papers, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague, number wp358, Aug.
• Leif Danziger, 2008, "Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 2244.
• Robert G. Chambers & Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf & Michael Vardanyan, 2008, "Generalized Quadratic Revenue Functions," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 2404.
• Theo Eicher & Thomas Strobel, 2008, "Der deutsche Produktivitätsabschwung: Ursachenforschung auf Branchenebene," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, volume 61, issue 15, pages 33-40, August.
• Klaus Abberger & Wolfgang Nierhaus, 2008, "Die ifo Kapazitätsauslastung - ein gleichlaufender Indikator der deutschen Industriekonjunktur," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, volume 61, issue 16, pages 15-23, August.
• Luís Alberto Godinho Coelho & Agostinho Silvestre Rosa, 2008, "Efficiency analysis of the Portuguese beam trawl fleet that targets the common prawn Palaemon serratus (Pennant)," CEFAGE-UE Working Papers, University of Evora, CEFAGE-UE (Portugal), number 2008_09.
• Pedro S. Martins, 2008, "Dispersion in Wage Premiums and Firm Performance," Working Papers, Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research, number 8, May.
• Belinda Colina Arenas, 2008, "Capacidades Societales de Innovación. Su desarrollo en Empresas de Producción Social en el contexto del Socialismo del siglo XXI en Venezuela," CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, CIRIEC-España, issue 60, pages 121-153, April.
• Jens Arnold & Cyrille Schwellnus, 2008, "Do Corporate Taxes Reduce Productivity and Investment at the Firm Level? Cross-Country Evidence from the Amadeus Dataset," Working Papers, CEPII research center, number 2008-19, Sep.
• Matthieu Crozet & Isabelle Méjean & Soledad Zignago, 2008, "Plus grandes, plus fortes, plus loin... Performances relatives des firmes exportatrices françaises," Working Papers, CEPII research center, number 2008-26, Nov.
• Nadia Belhaj Hassine, 2008, "Trade, Human Capital, and Technology Diffusion in the Mediterranean Agricultural Sector," Economie Internationale, CEPII research center, issue 114, pages 115-142.
• Branislav Saxa, 2008, "Learning-by-Exporting or Managerial Quality? Evidence from the Czech Republic," Economie Internationale, CEPII research center, issue 115, pages 109-139.
• Richard Kneller & Mauro Pisu & Zhihong Yu, 2008, "Overseas business costs and firm export performance," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, volume 41, issue 2, pages 639-669, May, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00480.x.
• Francesco Aiello & Valeria Pupo & Fernanda Ricotta, 2008, "Sulla dinamica della produttività totale dei fattori in Italia. Un’analisi settoriale," Working Papers, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF, number 200803, Dec.
• Miguel Espinosa & Pietro Bonaldi & HernÔøΩn Vallejo, 2008, "Representations and Identities for homogeneous Technologies," Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, number 4974, Jun.
• Antonio Rafael Pena Sánchez, 2008, "El nivel de desarrollo económico en Andalucía: análisis diferencial de los factores determinantes en el contexto de las regiones espa~nolas," Revista de Economía del Rosario, Universidad del Rosario.
• Diego Enrique Silva Garzón & July Amanda Castellanos Mendoza, 2008, "Retorno a las controversias del capital. De cómo olvidar los problemas de la teoría económica," Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID, number 4677, May.
• Jorge David Quinteo Otero & William Orlando Prieto Bustos & Fernando Barrios Aguirre & Laura Elena Leviller Guardo, 2008, "Determinantes de la eficiencia técnica en las empresas colombianas, 2001-2004," Revista Semestre Económico, Universidad de Medellín.
• Martha Cecilia Vasquez Olave & Luis Eduardo Gir�n Cruz & Leydi Viviana �ngel Giraldo & David Orjuela Gonzalez y Holmes Hern�n S�nchez Rengifo, 2008, "Sobreeducación en las ciencias económicas, administrativas e ingenierías en el área metropolitana de Cali, 2001-2005," Revista Semestre Económico, Universidad de Medellín.
• Rubén Darío Sepúlveda Vargas, 2008, "Valoración económica del uso recreativo del Parque Ronda del Sinú, en Montería, Colombia," Revista Semestre Económico, Universidad de Medellín.
• Juan Carlos Vergara Schmalbach & Julio Am�zquita L�pez & Francisco Javier Maza �vila, 2008, "Diseno y análisis de escenarios a partir de la caracterización de las cadenas productivas mediante modelos de redes," Revista Panorama Económico, Universidad de Cartagena, volume 0, issue 0, pages 1-17.
• COELLI, Tim & LEFEBVRE, Mathieu & PESTIEAU, Pierre, 2008, "Social protection performance in the European Union: comparison and convergence," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), number 2008012, Mar.
• Love, Inessa & Gatti, Roberta, 2008, "Does access to credit improve productivity? Evidence from Bulgarian firms," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 6676, Feb.
• Gordon, Robert J. & Dew-Becker, Ian, 2008, "The Role of Labour Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 6722, Feb.
• Paserman, Daniele, 2008, "Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 6896, Jul.
• Dolado, Juan J & Stucchi, Rodolfo, 2008, "Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 7055, Nov.
• Ueda, Masako & Hirukawa, Masayuki, 2008, "Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 7089, Dec.
• Ueda, Masako & Hirukawa, Masayuki, 2008, "Venture Capital and Innovation: Which is First?," CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, number 7090, Dec.
• Simon Baptist & Francis Teal, 2008, "Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?," CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, number 2008-10.
• Fabrizio Erbetta & Carmelo Petraglia, 2008, "Drivers of regional efficiency differentials in Italy: technical inefficiency or allocative distortions?," CERIS Working Paper, CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY, number 200802, Jun.
• Luigi Benfratello & Tiziano Razzolini, 2008, "Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms," Development Working Papers, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano, number 236, Jan.
• Escribano, Álvaro & Guasch, J. Luis, 2008, "Robust methodology for investment climate assessment on productivity: application to investment climate surveys from Central America," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number we081911, Jun.
• Escribano, Álvaro & Guasch, J. Luis & Orte, Manuel De & Pena, Jorge, 2008, "Investment climate and firm’s economic performance: econometric methodology and application to Turkey's investment climate survey," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number we082113, Jun.
• Escribano, Álvaro & Stucchi, Rodolfo, 2008, "Catching up in total factor productivity through the business cycle : evidence from Spanish manufacturing surveys," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number we085125, Nov.
• Key, Nigel & McBride, William & Mosheim, Roberto, 2008, "Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Change in the U.S. Hog Industry," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 40, issue 1, pages 137-149, April.
• Krüger, Jens & Cantner, Uwe, 2008, "Micro-Heterogeneity and Aggregate Productivity Development in the German Manufacturing Sector: Results from a Decomposition Exercise," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL), Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL), number 34375.
• Alexandru Voicu, 2008, "Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth," DEGIT Conference Papers, DEGIT, Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, number c013_013, Nov.
• Oleg Badunenko & Michael Fritsch & Andreas Stephan, 2008, "What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm?: The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, number 775.
• Andreas Stephan & Oleksandr Talavera & Andriy Tsapin, 2008, "Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, number 784.
• Frauke G. Braun & Astrid Cullmann, 2008, "Key Parameters and Efficiency of Mexican Manufacturing: Are There Still Differences between the North and the South? An Application of Nested and Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Models," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, number 816.
• Astrid Cullmann & Mehdi Farsi & Massimo Filippini, 2009, "Unobserved Heterogeneity and International Benchmarking in Public Transport," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, number 960.
• Simon Condliffe & William Latham & Christian Le Bas & Frédéric Miribel, 2008, "Agglomeration Economies within IT-Producing and IT-Consuming Industries in U.S. Regions," Working Papers, University of Delaware, Department of Economics, number 08-24.
• Christian Bidard, 2008, "The Dynamics of Intensive Cultivation," EconomiX Working Papers, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX, number 2008-24.
• Ram Pratap Sinha & Biswajit Chatterjee, 2008, "Fund-Based Activity of Indian Commercial Banks: A Malmquist Approach," Indian Economic Review, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, volume 43, issue 1, pages 83-102, July.
• Rouselle F. Lavado & Erniel B. Barrios, 2008, "Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines," Development Economics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 22643, Jan.
• Badri Narayanan G. & Pankaj Vashisht, 2008, "Determinants of Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Industry," Microeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 22234, Jan.
• Abid A. Burki & Mushtaq A. Khan, 2008, "Milk Supply Chain and Efficiency of Smallholder Dairy Producers in Pakistan," Microeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 22252, Jan.
• Van Deft, Christian & Dallery, Yann & Hadj Youssef , Khaled, 2008, "Priority allocation decisions in large scale MTO/MTS multi-product manufacturing systems : Technical report," HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris, number 905, Oct.
• Giannangeli, Silvia & Gómez-Salvador, Ramón, 2008, "Evolution and sources of manufacturing productivity growth: evidence from a panel of European countries," Working Paper Series, European Central Bank, number 914, Jun.
• Jose Palacin, 2008, "Innovation, Venture Capital and Globalization: the Role of Public Policies," UNECE Annual Report Economic Essays, UNECE, number 2008_5, Jun.
• Rumen Dobrinsky, 2008, "Innovation as a Key Driver of Competitiveness," UNECE Annual Report Economic Essays, UNECE, number 2008_6, Jun.
• Chen, Zhuo & Song, Shunfeng, 2008, "Efficiency and technology gap in China's agriculture: A regional meta-frontier analysis," China Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 19, issue 2, pages 287-296, June.
• Kasahara, Hiroyuki & Rodrigue, Joel, 2008, "Does the use of imported intermediates increase productivity? Plant-level evidence," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 87, issue 1, pages 106-118, August.
• Martins, Pedro S., 2008, "Dispersion in wage premiums and firm performance," Economics Letters, Elsevier, volume 101, issue 1, pages 63-65, October.
• Diewert, W. Erwin & Fox, Kevin J., 2008, "On the estimation of returns to scale, technical progress and monopolistic markups," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, volume 145, issue 1-2, pages 174-193, July.
• Del Boca, Alessandra & Galeotti, Marzio & Rota, Paola, 2008, "Non-convexities in the adjustment of different capital inputs: A firm-level investigation," European Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 52, issue 2, pages 315-337, February.
• Ma, Hengyun & Oxley, Les & Gibson, John & Kim, Bonggeun, 2008, "China's energy economy: Technical change, factor demand and interfactor/interfuel substitution," Energy Economics, Elsevier, volume 30, issue 5, pages 2167-2183, September.
• Koetse, Mark J. & de Groot, Henri L.F. & Florax, Raymond J.G.M., 2008, "Capital-energy substitution and shifts in factor demand: A meta-analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, volume 30, issue 5, pages 2236-2251, September.
• Jamasb, Tooraj & Pollitt, Michael & Triebs, Thomas, 2008, "Productivity and efficiency of US gas transmission companies: A European regulatory perspective," Energy Policy, Elsevier, volume 36, issue 9, pages 3398-3412, September.
• Gorodnichenko, Yuriy & Grygorenko, Yegor, 2008, "Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, volume 36, issue 1, pages 17-42, March.
• Okada, Tae & Horioka, Charles Yuji, 2008, "A comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 67, issue 2, pages 517-520, August.
• Benfratello, Luigi & Schiantarelli, Fabio & Sembenelli, Alessandro, 2008, "Banks and innovation: Microeconometric evidence on Italian firms," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, volume 90, issue 2, pages 197-217, November.
• Martín-Oliver, Alfredo & Salas-Fumás, Vicente, 2008, "The output and profit contribution of information technology and advertising investments in banks," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, volume 17, issue 2, pages 229-255, April.
• Oliner, Stephen D. & Sichel, Daniel E. & Stiroh, Kevin J., 2008, "Explaining a productive decade," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, volume 30, issue 4, pages 633-673.
• Roques, Fabien A., 2008, "Market design for generation adequacy: Healing causes rather than symptoms," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, volume 16, issue 3, pages 171-183, September.
• Elmas Yaldiz & Ertugrul Deliktas, 2008, "Evaluating Productivity Change in Turkish Banking Industry: A Micro Approach," Working Papers, Ege University, Department of Economics, number 0801, Feb.
• Martin, Ralf, 2008, "Productivity dispersion, competition and productivity measurement," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 19573, Jun.
• Ngai, L. Rachel & Samaniego, Roberto M., 2008, "Research and Productivity Growth Across Industries," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 4410, Mar.
• Luigi Guiso & Fabiano Schivardi, 2008, "What determines entrepreneurial clusters?," EIEF Working Papers Series, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), number 0806, revised May 2008.
• Andrés Vázquez, 2008, "A Note on the Two-Input Arc Elasticity of Substitution," Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos, volume 23, issue 2, pages 313-322.
• Tooraj Jamasb & Michael Pollitt & Thomas Triebs, 2008, "Productivity and Efficiency of US Gas Transmission Companies: A European Regulatory Perspective," Working Papers, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, number EPRG 0806, Mar.
• Dominique Finon & Fabien Roques, 2008, "Financing arrangements and industrial organisation for new nuclear build in electricity markets," Working Papers, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, number EPRG 0826, Mar.
• Vicente Germán Soto, 2008, "El stock de capital industrial medido a través de la relación inversión-empleo: estimaciones para los estados mexicanos," Ensayos Revista de Economia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Economia, volume 0, issue 1, pages 53-80, May.
• Kostevc, Crt & Damijan, Jože, 2008, "Causal Link between Exporting and Innovation Activity. Evidence from Slovenian Firms," Papers, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number DYNREG22.
• K.J. Joseph, 2008, "Information Technology and Productivity: Evidence From India's Manufacturing Sector," Working Papers, eSocialSciences, number id:1418.
• Kristof De Witte & Rui C. Marques, 2008, "Capturing the environment, a metafrontier approach to the drinking water sector," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven, number ces0804, Mar.
• J. Van Biesebroeck, 2008, "Aggregating and Decomposing Productivity," Review of Business and Economic Literature, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Review of Business and Economic Literature, volume 0, issue 2, pages 112-146.
• Karel Havik & Kieran Mc Morrow & Werner Röger & Alessandro Turrini, 2008, "The EU-US total factor productivity gap : An industry perspective," European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission, number 339, Sep.
• Francesca D'Auria & Kieran Mc Morrow & Karl Pichelmann, 2008, "Economic impact of migration flows following the 2004 EU enlargement process - A model based analysis," European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission, number 349, Nov.
• Adam GERŠL, 2008, "Productivity, Export Performance, and Financing of the Czech Corporate Sector: The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment," Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, volume 58, issue 05-06, pages 232-247, August.
• Adam Geršl, 2008, "Performance and financing of the corporate sector: the role of foreign direct investment," Working Papers IES, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, number 2008/03, Mar, revised Mar 2008.
• Jan Průša, 2008, "Productivity of Czech Small and Medium Entreprises: Lagging Behind Their Potential," Working Papers IES, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, number 2008/32, Nov, revised Nov 2008.
• Rui Castro & Gian Luca Clementi & Yoonsoo Lee, 2008, "Cross-sectoral variation in firm-level idiosyncratic risk," Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, number 0812, DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-200812.
• Nin-Pratt, Alejandro & Yu, Bingxin, 2008, "An updated look at the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa," IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 787.
• Baybars Karacaovali, 2008, "Productivity Matters for Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence," Fordham Economics Discussion Paper Series, Fordham University, Department of Economics, number dp2008-14.
• Francesco Nucci, 2008, "Italy’S Decline: Getting The Facts Right: Comment," Giornale degli Economisti, GDE (Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia), Bocconi University, volume 67, issue 1, pages 103-115, March.
• Carlos Carreira & Paulino Teixeira, 2008, "Entry and exit as a source of aggregate productivity growth in two alternative technological regimes," GEMF Working Papers, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, number 2008-01.
• Guenter Lang, 2008, "Measuring the Returns of Research and Development: An Empirical Study of the German Manufacturing Sector over 45 Years," Working Papers, The German University in Cairo, Faculty of Management Technology, number 10, May.
• Maggie Xiaoyang Chen & Michael Owen Moore, 2008, "Location Decisions of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms," Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy, number 2008-02, Feb.
• Nicolas Berman & Jérôme Héricourt, 2008, "Financial Factors and the Margins of Trade: Evidence from Cross-Country Firm-Level Data," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL, number halshs-00321632, Sep.
• Bernard Decaluwé & Fida Karam, 2008, "Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment : a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL, number halshs-00331322, Apr.
• S. Blancard & J.Ph. Boussemart & W. Briec & K. Kerstens, 2008, "Technology Adoption in French Agriculture and the Role of Financial Constraints," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-00787698.
• Nadia Belhaj Hassine-Belghith, 2008, "Trade, human capital, and technology diffusion in the Mediterranean agricultural sector," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-01298847.
• Celine Nauges & Caroline van den Berg, 2008, "Economies of density, scale and scope in the water supply and sewerage sector: a study of four developing and transition economies," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-02665237, DOI: 10.1007/s11149-008-9063-2.
• Gilles Duranton & Michael Storper, 2008, "Rising trade costs? Agglomeration and trade with endogenous transaction costs," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-03415826, Feb, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.00464.x.
• Nicolas Berman & Jérôme Héricourt, 2008, "Financial Factors and the Margins of Trade: Evidence from Cross-Country Firm-Level Data," Post-Print, HAL, number halshs-00321632, Sep.
• Gilles Duranton & Michael Storper, 2008, "Rising trade costs? Agglomeration and trade with endogenous transaction costs," Sciences Po Economics Publications (main), HAL, number hal-03415826, Feb, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.00464.x.
• Bellone, Flora & Musso, Patrick & Nesta, Lionel & Warzynski, Frederic, 2008, "Endogenous Markups, Firm Productivity and International Trade: : Testing SomeMicro-Level Implications of theMelitz-Ottaviano Model," Working Papers, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics, number 08-20, Sep.
• Stephan, Andreas & Talavera, Oleksandr & Tsapin, Andriy, 2008, "Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, number 125, Apr.
• Badunenko, Oleg & Fritsch, Michael & Stephan, Andreas, 2008, "What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? - the importance of industry, location, R&D, and size," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, number 126, Apr.
• Zikhali, Precious, 2008, "Fast Track Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe," Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics, number 322, Oct.
• Stephan, Andreas & Badunenko, Oleg & Fritsch, Michael, 2008, "What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry,Location, R&D, and Size," CISEG Working Papers Series, Jönköping International Business School, Centre for Innovation Systems, Entrepreneurship and Growth, number 4, Mar.
• Førsund, Finn R. & Hjalmarsson, Lennart, 2008, "Dynamic Analysis of Structural Change and Productivity Measurement," Memorandum, Oslo University, Department of Economics, number 27/2008, Oct.
• Eliasson, Gunnar, 2008, "Advanced Purchasing, Spillovers, Innovative Pricing and Serendipitous Discovery," Ratio Working Papers, The Ratio Institute, number 119, May.
• Kristensen, Troels & Møller Pedersen, Kjeld & Rose Olsen, Kim, 2008, "Hospitalers omkostninger, struktur og effektivitet. En undersøgelse af stordrifts- og samdriftsfordele i det danske sygehusvæsen," DaCHE discussion papers, University of Southern Denmark, Dache - Danish Centre for Health Economics, number 2008:11, Oct.
• Fukao, Kyoji & 深尾, 京司 & フカオ, キョウジ & Inui, Tomohiko & 乾, 友彦 & イヌイ, トモヒコ & Kabe, Shigesaburo & 可部, 繁三郎 & Liu, Deqiang & リュウ, トクキョウ, 2008, "An International Comparison of the TFP Levels of Japanese, Korean and Chinese Listed Firms," CEI Working Paper Series, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, number 2007-13, Mar.
• Kyoji Fukao & Tomohiko Inui & Shigesaburo Kabe & Deqiang Liu, 2008, "An International Comparison of the TFP Levels of Japanese, Korean and Cinese Listed Firms," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, number d07-244, Mar.
• Simon Teitel, 2008, "Innovation Promotion and Learning in International Trade: the Case of Colombian Manufacturing Exports," ICER Working Papers, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research, number 23-2008, Jun.
• Robert Finger & Werner Hediger, 2008, "The Application of Robust Regression to a Production Function Comparison – the Example of Swiss Corn," IED Working paper, IED Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, number 08-02, Jun.
• Man-Seop Park, 2008, "On the instantaneous life of a nondurable input: a reflection in light of Cantor, Newton and Zeno," Discussion Paper Series, Institute of Economic Research, Korea University, number 0802.
• Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Hervé Leleu, 2008, "Comparing TFP Catching-up and Capital Deepening in US and European Growths: A Directional Distance Function Approach," Working Papers, IESEG School of Management, number 2008-ECO-01, Jan.
• Laurens Cherchye & Timo Kuosmanen & Hervé Leleu, 2008, "Technical and economic efficiency measures under short run profit maximizing behavior," Working Papers, IESEG School of Management, number 2008-ECO-05, Jul.
• Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Walter Briec & Hervé Leleu, 2008, "Linear programming solutions and distance functions under a constant returns to scale technology," Working Papers, IESEG School of Management, number 2008-ECO-06, Sep.
• Walter Briec & Kristiaan Kerstens, 2008, "The Luenberger Productivity Indicator: An Economic Specifcation Leading to Infeasibilities," Working Papers, IESEG School of Management, number 2008-ECO-09, Sep.
• Walter Briec & Kristiaan Kerstens, 2008, "The Hicks-Moorsteen Productivity Index Satisfies the Determinateness Axiom," Working Papers, IESEG School of Management, number 2008-ECO-10, Feb.
• António B. Moniz, 2008, "The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of changes in work in Portugal," IET Working Papers Series, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, number 07/2008, Aug.
• Ms. Marialuz Moreno Badia & Veerle Slootmaekers & Ilke Van Beveren, 2008, "Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2008/246, Oct.
• Badri Narayanan G & Pankaj Vashisht, 2008, "Determinants of Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Industry," Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi Working Papers, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India, number 201, Jan.
• Miguel St. Aubyn, 2008, "Law and Order Efficiency Measurement – A Literature Review," Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa, number 2008/19, Mar.
• António Afonso & Sónia Fernandes, 2008, "Assessing Hospital Efficiency: Non-parametric Evidence for Portugal," Working Papers Department of Economics, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa, number 2008/07, Feb.
• Jens Mohrenweiser & Thomas Zwick, 2008, "Why do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered," Economics of Education Working Paper Series, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW), number 0016, Mar, revised Oct 2008.
• Egon Franck & Stephan Nüesch, 2008, "The Effect of Talent Disparity on Team Performance in Soccer," Working Papers, University of Zurich, Institute for Strategy and Business Economics (ISU), number 0087, revised 2009.
• Gorodnichenko, Yuriy & Grygorenko, Yegor, 2008, "Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3282, Jan.
• Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, 2008, "Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3368, Feb.
• Paserman, M. Daniele, 2008, "Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3572, Jun.
• Sabarwal, Shwetlena & Terrell, Katherine, 2008, "Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3758, Oct.
• Voicu, Alexandru, 2008, "Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3807, Oct.
• Dolado, Juan J. & Stucchi, Rodolfo, 2008, "Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3832, Nov.
• Yoshino, Hisao, 2008, "Technology Choice, Change of Trade Structure, and A Case of Hungarian Economy," IDE Discussion Papers, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO), number 139, Mar.
• Fukunishi, Takahiro, 2008, "Clothing Export from sub-Saharan Africa : Impact on Poverty and Potential for Growth," IDE Discussion Papers, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO), number 163, Jul.
• Bakht, Zaid & Salimullah, Md. & Yamagata, Tatsufumi & Yunus, Mohammad, 2008, "Competitiveness of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh : a study of industrial development amid global competition," IDE Discussion Papers, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO), number 169, Oct.
• Mueller Steffen, 2008, "Capital Stock Approximation using Firm Level Panel Data: A Modified Perpetual Inventory Approach," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, volume 228, issue 4, pages 357-371, August, DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2008-0405.
• Jens J. Krüger, 2008, "Intra-Sectoral Structural Change and Aggregate Productivity Development. A Robust Stochastic Nonparametric Frontier Function Approach," Jena Economics Research Papers, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, number 2008-038, May.
• Panu Poutvaara & Andreas Wagener, 2008, "Why is the public sector more labor-intensive? A distortionary tax argument," Journal of Economics, Springer, volume 94, issue 2, pages 105-124, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00712-008-0002-6.
• Jeffrey Bernstein & Theofanis Mamuneas, 2008, "Public infrastructure, input efficiency and productivity growth in the Canadian food processing industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 1, pages 1-13, February, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0063-5.
• J. Griffin & M. Steel, 2008, "Flexible mixture modelling of stochastic frontiers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 1, pages 33-50, February, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0064-4.
• Kathleen Carey & Avi Dor, 2008, "Expense preference behavior and management “outsourcing”: a comparison of adopters and non-adopters of contract management in U.S. hospitals," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 1, pages 61-75, February, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0065-3.
• Mulu Gebreeyesus, 2008, "Firm turnover and productivity differentials in Ethiopian manufacturing," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 2, pages 113-129, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0076-0.
• J. Sauer & B. Balint, 2008, "Distorted prices and producer efficiency: the case of Romania," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 2, pages 131-142, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0071-5.
• Anatoly Pilyavsky & Matthias Staat, 2008, "Efficiency and productivity change in Ukrainian health care," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 2, pages 143-154, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0070-6.
• Massimo Filippini & Nevenka Hrovatin & Jelena Zorić, 2008, "Cost efficiency of Slovenian water distribution utilities: an application of stochastic frontier methods," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 2, pages 169-182, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0069-z.
• Laure Latruffe & Sophia Davidova & Kelvin Balcombe, 2008, "Application of a double bootstrap to investigation of determinants of technical efficiency of farms in Central Europe," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 2, pages 183-191, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0074-2.
• Robin Cross & Rolf Färe, 2008, "Farrell efficiency under value and quantity data," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 3, pages 193-199, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0080-4.
• Dag Edvardsen & Finn Førsund & Sverre Kittelsen, 2008, "Far out or alone in the crowd: a taxonomy of peers in DEA," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 3, pages 201-210, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0066-2.
• Pierre Ouellette & Li Yan, 2008, "Investment and dynamic DEA," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 29, issue 3, pages 235-247, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0079-x.
• R. Färe & S. Grosskopf & D. Margaritis, 2008, "U.S. productivity in agriculture and R&D," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 1, pages 7-12, August, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0092-8.
• Robert Chambers, 2008, "Stochastic productivity measurement," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 2, pages 107-120, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0082-x.
• Nigel Driffield & Jun Du & Sourafel Girma, 2008, "Optimal geographic diversification and firm performance: evidence from the U.K," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 2, pages 145-154, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0102-x.
• Jens Müller, 2008, "Efficiency vectors, efficiency and performance measures: new methods for ranking efficient organizational units," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 2, pages 99-106, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0106-6.
• Robert Chambers & Rolf Färe, 2008, "A “calculus” for data envelopment analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 3, pages 169-175, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0104-8.
• Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon & Spiro Stefanou, 2008, "The dynamics of efficiency and productivity growth in U.S. electric utilities," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 3, pages 177-190, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0107-5.
• Thijs Raa, 2008, "Debreu’s coefficient of resource utilization, the Solow residual, and TFP: the connection by Leontief preferences," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, volume 30, issue 3, pages 191-199, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11123-008-0112-8.
• B. Atrostic, 2008, "Measuring U.S. innovative activity: business data at the U.S. Census Bureau," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, volume 33, issue 2, pages 153-171, April, DOI: 10.1007/s10961-007-9081-8.
• E. Grifell-Tatjé & C. Lovell, 2008, "Productivity at the post: its drivers and its distribution," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, volume 33, issue 2, pages 133-158, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11149-007-9051-y.
• Céline Nauges & Caroline Berg, 2008, "Economies of density, scale and scope in the water supply and sewerage sector: a study of four developing and transition economies," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, volume 34, issue 2, pages 144-163, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11149-008-9063-2.
• MESNARD, Louis de, 2008, "On companies' microeconomic behavior : profit rate versus economic profit," LEG - Document de travail - Economie, LEG, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, number 2008-05, Oct.
• Peter Voigt & Heinrich Hockmann, 2008, "Russia's transition process in the light of a rising economy: Economic trajectories in Russia's industry and agriculture," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), volume 5, issue 2, pages 251-267, December.