this study compared and analyzed indigenous and modern agricultural technologies used in cassava production in anambra state. multi-stage sampling technique was used in sample selection. a total of 160 farmers were purposively selected from the four agricultural zones that made up the state based on the use of modern and indigenous technologies. data were collected using structured questionnair...

The per-case payment rates of Medicare's prospective payment system are annually updated. As one element of the update factor, Congress required consideration of changes in hospital productivity. In this article, calculations of annual changes in labor and total factor productivity during 1981-86 of hospitals eligible for prospective payment are presented using several output and input variants...

The main objective of this paper is to decompose the productivity growth of Egyptian cotton production. We employ the stochastic frontier approach and decompose the changes in total factor productivity (CTFP) growth into four components: technical progress (TP), changes in scale component (CSC), changes in allocative efficiency (CAE), and changes in technical efficiency (CTE). Considering a sit...

We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high capital mobility and low labour mobility. We show that high capital mobility amplifies the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of domestic fluctuations in total factor productivity, shortens the lag of the response to shocks and raises the variability of unemployment. But ave...

Analysis of banks total factor productivity by aggregate level - The breeze deregulation in the managing an account frameworks

As corporate financialization becomes an important stylized fact, policymakers and economists are concerned that may harm firms’ productivity by reducing operation investment. However, no previous literature has assessed the heterogeneous effect of on total factor induced self-selection. In this study, we do so leveraging framework marginal treatment effects (MTE) using samples Chinese listed n...