Biased technological progress and total factor productivity growth: From the perspective of China's renewable energy industry

The study estimates the sources of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) of the 2-digit manufacturing industries in Karnataka during the period from 1981-82 to 2010-11, during the entire study period, during the pre & post reform period (1981-82 to 1990-91 and 1991-92 to 2010-11) and also during two different decades of the post-reform period, i.e., during 1991-92 to 2000-01 and 2001-02 to 2010-11 using stochastic frontier approach. Technological progress is found to be the major driving force of TFPG and the decline in TFPG of the state’s manufacturing industries during the post-reform period is mainly accounted for by the decline in technological progress (TP) of the same during that period.

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Identifying sources and trends for productivity growth in a sample of Queensland broad-acre beef enterprises

Animal Production Science ◽

10.1071/an10033 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 51 (5) ◽

pp. 443 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Daniel Gregg ◽

John Rolfe

Keyword(s):

Technical Efficiency ◽

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Total Factor Productivity Growth ◽

Productivity Change ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Average Growth ◽

Farm Business

The research reported in this paper considers the question of the possible sources of productivity change in the broad-acre beef sector in northern Australia over the last decade. Analysis is conducted over the components of total factor productivity growth for a subset of broad-acre beef production enterprises in Queensland. Specifically we consider the contributions of technological progress, scale changes (changes in the ‘size’ of an enterprise), and technical efficiency (how efficiently an enterprise combines their inputs to produce output) changes to total factor productivity growth using an index based on a decomposition of productivity change. The analysis employed a form for the production technology, which allowed for linear technological progress over time, accounted for rainfall and differences in land types and allowed for the testing of a range of sources of efficiency change. Results suggested that productivity growth within the sample was strong between 1999 and 2008 averaging 3.8% per year. The majority of this growth appeared to originate from technological progress (average growth of 2.7% per year) but there is the possibility that sample-leakage effects caused relatively low estimated contributions from technical efficiency growth (averaged 1.2% per year). Participation in a privately operated farm-business auditing program appeared to have a positive influence on enterprise technical efficiency.

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What contributes to total factor productivity growth in the Chinese banking sector?

Technological and Economic Development of Economy ◽

10.3846/tede.2018.249 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 792-811 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ning ZHU ◽

Ning ZHANG ◽

Bing WANG ◽

Tomas BALEŽENTIS

Keyword(s):

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Commercial Banks ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Banking Sector ◽

Total Factor Productivity Growth ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Efficiency Gains ◽

Average Growth ◽

Chinese Banking

We propose a new metafrontier, non-radial, biennial Luenberger productivity indicator to evaluate the total factor productivity growth of the Chinese banking sector, during the period of 2004–2012. The bootstrapping approach is also taken into account to introduce the statistical inference of the total factor productivity, and its components. It is found that the overall Chinese banking sector operated well with an average growth rate of 5.4%, where technological progress was the driving force promoting the development of the Chinese banking sector during the earlier studied period, and efficiency gains outperformed technological progress during the later studied period. We investigated three banking groups, state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock commercial banks depending on their technological progress, but city commercial banks were dominated by efficiency gains. Regarding the productivity growth gap, the metafrontier productivity growth gap and efficiency change gap appeared to show gradual convergences, but the technological change gap maintained the width at a certain extent.

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Total Factor Productivity Growth, Technological Progress and Technical Efficiency Changes: Productivity Change Dimensions in Tunisia

Journal of Quantitative Methods ◽

10.29145/2020/jqm/040204 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Maha Kalai ◽

Kamel Helali

Keyword(s):

Technical Efficiency ◽

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Stochastic Frontier ◽

Total Factor Productivity Growth ◽

Productivity Change ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Total Productivity

In this study, we use the stochastic frontier production approach to split the total productivity growth sources into technical progress and technical efficiency changes of the economic sectors in Tunisia between 1961 and 2014. Based on the sectors’ evolution, the analysis is centred on the technological progress trend, the technical efficiency change, and the role of productivity change in the economic growth. The empirical results show that the production factors have a significant effect on productivity. The review of the total factor productivity growth sources reveals that the contribution of technological progress is the main source of this growth.

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