A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Output Level and Growth in Poland and Western Economies

Gary Koop, Jacek Osiewalski and Mark Steel

Economic Change and Restructuring, 2000, vol. 33, issue 3, 185-202

Abstract: This paper uses Bayesian stochastic frontier methods to measure the productivity gap between Poland and Western countries that existed before the beginning of the main Polish economic reform. Using data for 20 Western economies, Poland and Yugoslavia (1980-90) we estimate a translog stochastic frontier and make inference about individual efficiencies. Following the methodology proposed in our earlier work, we also decompose output growth into technical, efficiency and input changes and examine patterns of growth in the period under consideration. Copyright 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 2000
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