Productivity and Intermediate Products: A Frontier Approach

Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf
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Rolf Fare: SIU at Carbondale

Computational Economics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a frontier model for productivity measurement that explicitly recognizes that some inputs are produced and consumed within the production technology. Here we differ from Koopmans (1951) by assuming that the intermediate inputs may also be final output. This assumption is in line with current international trade theory, where intermediate inputs are tradable. Our model consists of two production units that are interconnected in a network to form a production technology. The productivity measure employed here is the so-called Malmquist productivity index. This index consists of ratios of distance functions. Here these distance functions are defined on the network technology and they are computed using linear programming techniques.

JEL-codes: C8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 1995-06-01
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