Most research works on the production frontier in aquaculture focus on efficiency
measurement using either Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) or Data Envelopment …

This paper uses techniques from a stochastic production frontier (ie, the best practice
technology used in the industry vis-à-vis average practised technology) and panel data …

The world economy continues to be dominated by the Triad regions: Europe, North America
and East Asia. This text analyses the economic relationship that has evolved between two …

The manufacturing sector is becoming more important for the Malaysia economy. The
contribution of output and employment from this sector is continuously increasing since the …

We examine the relationship between trade liberalization and manufacturing labor
productivity growth for 27 industries in seven Latin American countries from 1970 to 1998 …

This paper analyses productivity growth in 16 of Taiwan's manufacturing industries during
the period 1978–1992. The non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach is used to …

This paper considers Cobb-Douglas Stochastic frontiers in which the technical inefficiency
effects are defined by a model with two distributional assumptions. The model involved is the …

Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing performance of five Asian countries since the 1960s:
China, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan. Over this period Asian industrial …

Taiwan is a place of contradictions. Its successful economic and political modernization has
stimulated the imaginations of most observers. Still, its nation-state status has been …

This study provides a new explanation of total factor productivity growth of Taiwanese
industry. Besides the channels identified in the literature, this study finds that the venture …