A general approach to intertemporal and interspatial productivity comparisons

Denny, Michael; Fuss, Melvyn A.

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“…As indicated by Denny and Fuss (1983), however, the exact index number approach can yield a biased measure for technical change if employed in analyzing industries with increasing returns to scale. They also claim that if the technology is not translog or if the second-order translog parameters differ across firms, the Tornqvist index can result in substantial distortion.…”

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati

Lööf

2012

Applied Economics

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This paper presents alternative specifications of the production functions of a large panel of Swedish firms for the period 1992-2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy improved from being among the weakest to one of the strongest within the OECD. In order to present a detailed exploration of this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth, rate of technical change and returns to scale. The models are extended to allow for firm-specific as well as time-varying technical change. The parametric TFP measures are also compared with the non-parametric Solow residual, and several hypotheses are tested to explain the growth patterns in the Swedish economy. It is found that the improved growth rate, initially starting in large exporting manufacturing firms, after a deep economic crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, spilled over to the rest of the economy, both manufacturing and services.

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Section: The Theory Of Productivity Analysismentioning

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati

Lööf

2012

Applied Economics

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“…TFP is the change in the ratio of outputs to inputs; thus, CE is the change in the ratio of inputs to outputs. Denny and Fuss (1983a) developed a general growth accounting methodology for analyzing the sources of intertemporal or interspatial differences in cost efficiency. Researchers who have employed this cost efficiency concept include Cooke and Sundquist (1989, 1991, 1993 and Hazilla and Kopp (1988) for agriculture, and Denny, Fuss and May (1981) and Fuss (1983a, 1983b) for industry.…”

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A Growth Accounting Analysis of Cost Efficiency in Milk Production for Six Northern States in the United States

Cocchi

Bravo‐Ureta

Cooke

1998

Canadian J Agri Economics

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This paper reports on the use of a growth accounting approach to calculate and decompose cost efficiency indices into technical change, regional competitive advantage stemming from spatial effects, and economies of size. Dairy farm data for Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania for the years 1968 are utilized in the analysis. The results show that technological change yielded a 1.8% average annual rate of cost reduction over the period studied. In addition, medium and large farms were, on average, 12% to 20% more efficient than small farms. Pennsylvania had a distinct competitive advantage (13.8%), while Maine exhibited a clear competitive disadvantage (-18.2%) in producing milk relative to New York. Ce papier s'inspire d'une approche de compte de croissance pour évaluer et traduire les index de coût d'efficacité en changement technique et avantage compétitif régional découlant d'une part des effets spaciaux, d'autre part des économies d'échelle. Des données de fermes laitières de Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Michigan, New York et Pennsylvania pour les années 1968et 1988 ont été utilisées au cours de cette analyse. Les résultats démontrent que le progres technologique a contribué en moyenne à un taux annuel de diminution des coûts d'environ 1.8% durant la période étudiée. En outre, les grandes et moyennes exploitations ont été de 12% à 20% plus performantes que les petites exploitations. Pennsylvania a enregistré un gain de compétitivité (13.8%) dans la production de lait alors que Maine affichait une nette baisse (-18.2%) par rapport à New York.

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“…In the expansion (14), only firstorder partial derivatives are required, but they must be evaluated at both points of observation. Denny and Fuss (1983) have shown that (14) can be considered as an accounting equation, which can also be obtained by taking the arithmetic average of the two linear approximations, obtained as Taylor's series expansions around the two points of observation, given by (9) and (10).…”

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Multilateral Comparison of Cost Structures in the Input–Output Tables of Japan, the US and West Germany

Fujikawa¹,

Izumi²,

Milana³

1995

Economic Systems Research

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This paper presents a multilateral comparison of relative levels and structures of costs of production in Japan, the US and West Germany. The analysis is carried out by using harmonized input-output tables, which are converted at U S prices by using adjusted sectoral purchasing power parities. A new accounting methodology is derived from recent developments of index number theoy, whereas the chosen multilateral comparison procedure gives results that are invariant with respect to the order of the pairs of countries examined.

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A general approach to intertemporal and interspatial productivity comparisons

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries

Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries

A Growth Accounting Analysis of Cost Efficiency in Milk Production for Six Northern States in the United States

Multilateral Comparison of Cost Structures in the Input–Output Tables of Japan, the US and West Germany

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