This chapter presents the empirical evidence on productivity and technical change for the
aggregate agricultural sector. It describes the descriptive information on agricultural …

This paper surveys alternative methodologies for measuring and comparing the productivity
and efficiency of railways, and the empirical findings of applied studies. Empirical studies …

I Introduction A DDITIVE and homogeneous production possibility frontiers have played an
im-portant role in formulating statistical tests of the theory of production. In section II we …

The “productivity paradox” of information systems (IS) is that, despite enormous
improvements in the underlying technology, the benefits of IS spending have not been found …

The paper rationalizes certain functional forms for index numbers with functional forms for
the underlying aggregator function. An aggregator functional form is said to be 'flexible'if it …

We explore the effect of computerization on productivity and output growth using data from
527 large US firms over 1987–1994. We find that computerization makes a contribution to …

The business value of information technology (IT) has been debated for a number of years.
While some authors have attributed large productivity improvements and substantial …

This book contains a modern treatment of production economics from a dual perspective,
with special emphasis on recent developments. Results that were scattered throughout …

I. Introduction INDUSTRIAL demand for energy is essen-tially a derived demand: the firm's
demand for energy as an input is derived from the de-mand for the firm's output. Inputs other …

This paper measures and analyzes the effect of sulfur dioxide emission restrictions on the
rate of productivity growth in the electric power industry over the 1973-79 business cycle. A …