How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data

Michael Funke and Jörg Rahn ()

Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers from Hamburg University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm-level efficiency.

Keywords: East Germany; technical efficiency; panel data; convergence; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E22 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2000-12
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