Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's iron and steel sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. We derive both growth accounting and econometric estimates of pro...

Optimizing the industry development system and implementing a high-quality strategy in China’s coal require us to grasp overall status regional differences of industrial development. Measuring decomposing total factor productivity growth is necessary prerequisite. In this study, we estimated (TFP) 24 major coal-producing provinces China by constructing stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model b...

This study is primarily focused on the productivity impacts of the provision of infrastructure on the registered manufacturing sector in India. This is analyzed by estimating the cost elasticity of infrastructure inputs. For this purpose we postulate a variable cost function model for the manufacturing sector with cost as a function of the prices of the variable inputs, levels of output and inf...

This study aims to measure the production capacity and capacity utilization in pharmaceutical industry. The capacity utilization is the ratio of actual production level to the potential production level which shows the gap between real production and production capacity. Method: Through econometric methods, the short-run translog cost function is estimated with the cost share function of produ...

in this paper, besides of studying and reviewing the theoretical analysis of the trade liberalization and industrial growth, the effect of trade liberalization on productivity in the industrial sector of the iran`s economy are investigated. in this study, a translog cost function and sur model for the period of 1974-2006 are used in order to evaluate the trade liberalization variable. at first,...

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Recent developments in the econometric estimation of multi-output, multi-input distance functions have provided a promising new solution to the single-output restriction implicit in the standard production function. However, a suspicion that regressor endogeneity may introduce possible simultaneous equations bias has concerned some econometricians. In this paper we show that, under profit maxim...

We use the simulation model ofCbalfallt and Gallant (IUS5) to investigate the fit of a Fourier flexible form to a cost function when interest is t.o estimate elasticities of substitution. The data is subject to errors in variables and the estimation method is seemingly unrelated regressions. \IVe use two approximating Fourier functional forms * Hesearch supported by C:-IPq ** Banco do Brasil, C...