We employ a recent empirical strategy to estimate country-specific and time-varying total
factor productivity (TFP) levels for the manufacturing sector of 63 countries over 40 years …

The traditional Stochastic Frontier Model (SFM) suffers from a very restrictive assumption of
independence of its error components and also limited ability to address heterogeneity …

This paper examines the impact of corruption on technical efficiency using a translog SFA
model and an objective corruption variable of China from 1999 to 2017. The results reveal …

In this paper, we adopt stochastic frontier model of translog production function to measure
the total factor productivity growth rate of 13 cities in Jiangsu province from the year 2000 to …

Increasing the Africa's food supply requires significant increases in agricultural productivity,
which in turn depends on investment in research and development (R&D). This study …