Sequential Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth: An Application to OECD Industrial Activities

Victoria Shestalova ()

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2003, vol. 19, issue 2, 226 pages

Abstract: The paper applies both the standard DEA methodology with contemporaneous frontiers and DEA with sequential frontiers to study changes in productivity and efficiency in manufacturing for a sample of eleven OECD countries over a twenty-year period. It uses a decomposition of the industrial Malmquist productivity indices to locate the sources of productivity growth: 'technical progress' and 'catching up.' The alternative indices are interrelated in a unifying framework that provides an interpretation to their difference. We argue that for manufacturing industries, in which technological regress is unlikely to occur, DEA with sequential frontiers provides a more adequate measure for the contribution of technical changes than standard DEA. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

Keywords: contemporaneous DEA; sequential DEA; TFP growth; Malmquist index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1022857501478

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