scholarly journals Reconfirmation on ^|^lsquo;the Japanese Rice Productivity Stagnation Hypothesis^|^rsquo;: Evidence from Regional Contributions to Japan^|^rsquo;s Rice Productivity Growth and Test for Productivity Convergence

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsunobu Kondo ◽  
Jun Sasaki ◽  
Yasutaka Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Rice Productivity ◽  
Productivity Convergence

scholarly journals Cyclical Adjustment, Capital-labor Substitution and Total Factor Productivity Convergence – East Germany After Unification

2012 ◽  
Vol 232 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Smolny
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Production Function ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
East German

SummaryDespite rapid economic integration and massive help from the Federal Government East German productivity catching up faded out in the nineties. This paper presents panel-data estimates of the productivity adjustment based on a production function framework and a stylized adjustment model of the economy. The central empirical result is a decomposition of the sources of productivity growth. The estimates reveal that a large part of productivity growth in the early nineties is related to factors that were specific for that period. The fading out since the mid-nineties is attributed to the development of total factor productivity.

scholarly journals Productivity Divergence across Kansas Farms

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Yeager ◽  
Michael R. Langemeier
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Continuous Data ◽  
Livestock Farm ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
Annual Productivity ◽  
Significant Divergence ◽  
Productivity Indices

This study used 30 years of continuous data for 135 farms in Kansas to explore changes in productivity using Malmquist productivity indices (MPI). The indices were used to determine whether there was productivity convergence or divergence in Kansas farms. The results showed there was significant divergence among the farms. The average annual productivity growth was 0.50 percent; the top farms based on MPI were larger in terms of value of farm production, crop farm income, and livestock farm income and received a larger percentage of their income from oilseeds, feed grains, and swine than the other farms on average.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of profit inefficiency and productivity convergence between Taiwanese and Chinese banks

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Chen ◽  
Tsu-Tan Fu ◽  
Jia-Ching Juo ◽  
Ming-Miin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Luenberger Productivity Indicator ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Indicator Analysis ◽  
Chinese Banks ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Productivity Assessment

To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different production technologies, this article develops a difference-based profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator. Adopting the proposed model, we empirically measure the profit inefficiency and examine the profit productivity convergence for samples banks consisting of 31 Taiwanese banks and 50 Chinese city banks over 2010–2014. Empirical results show that Chinese banks perform better in profit efficiency than Taiwanese banks. While Chinese banks have better technology in profit creation than Taiwanese banks, the latter may reap much higher profit gain than the former if they can adopt the profit metafrontier. The results of the profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator analysis show that both Chinese and Taiwanese banks have experienced declines in profit productivity. However, the results also indicate a divergence in productivity growth for Chinese city banks and a convergent productivity growth for Taiwanese banks. JEL CLASSIFICATION: D20, G21, P34

scholarly journals Productivity Dynamic of Rice, Corn, and Soybean in Java, Indonesian

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Johannes Nadapdap
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
West Java ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Growth Variability ◽  
Soybean Production ◽  
Rice Productivity ◽  
Central Java

This study analyzes productivity, productivity growth variability and variety coefficient of rice, corn, and soybeans on the island of Java. The data used in this research is secondary data in time series obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics from 1996 to 2015. The research shown that the highest rice production in East Java are 5.5 tons per hectare, the highest maize production in West Java are 4.84 tons per hectare and the highest soybean production in Central Java are 1.47 tons per hectare. The highest productivity growth of rice occurred in Banten, while the highest for corn is in West Java, and the highest for soybean is in Central Java. The highest variability in rice productivity achieved by the province of East Java, while the highest for corn commodity is in West Java, and the highest for soybean is in Central Java. The highest coefficient of rice productivity variation is in Banten, while the highest of corn in West Java and the highest of soybeans in DI. Yogyakarta.Keywords: corn, soybeans, rice, productivity, variability

scholarly journals Productivity Convergence and Divergence in Latin America, 1970-2014

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-337
Author(s):  
Christos Kollias ◽  
Panayiotis Tzeremes ◽  
Nickolaos G. Tzeremes
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Convergence Hypothesis ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
Convergence Clubs ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Relative Productivity ◽  
Latin American Countries

The paper examines Latin American countries’ productivity growth levels and their convergence patterns utilizing nonparametric frontier approaches. Utilizing a sample of 17 Latin American countries for the period 1970-2014 it estimates various productivity indexes alongside with their main components. Moreover a convergence analysis is conducted estimating relative productivity convergence paths. The results suggest that over the period examined, countries’ productivity growth levels have contracted. We provide evidence that the implementation of the structural reforms of the 1990s do not appear to have driven Latin American countries to higher productivity levels. Moreover, the results do not render support to the productivity convergence hypothesis. On the other hand, some support was found for countries’ technological change levels, identifying three convergence clubs.

Policy and technology for rice productivity growth in Asia

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 665-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Rosegrant ◽  
Prabhu L. Pingali
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Rice Productivity

scholarly journals PRODUCTIVITY CONVERGENCE ACROSS INDUSTRIES AND COUNTRIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY-BASED MEASUREMENT

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (S2) ◽  
pp. 218-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Inklaar ◽  
Marcel P. Timmer
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
American Economic Review ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Production Theory ◽  
Industry Level ◽  
Capital Assets ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
Sectoral Productivity ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Convergence Trend

Cross-country studies of economic growth have been hampered by the scarcity of reliable data on productivity at the industry level; see Bernard and Jones [American Economic Review, 91 (4) (2001), 1168–1169] and Rogerson [Journal of Political Economy, 116 (2) (2008), 235–259]. We bring together literature on industry prices, human capital, and capital assets to construct industry-level productivity measures that are well grounded in neoclassical production theory. These theory-based measures differ widely from the crude measures commonly used in the literature. We use these to confirm and strengthen the finding of Bernard and Jones [American Economic Review, 86 (5) (1996), 1216–1238] that for advanced OECD countries, patterns of convergence across sectors have differed since 1970: whereas productivity in market services converged, there is no convergence in manufacturing. More detailed analysis confirms that patterns of convergence are highly industry-specific. There is no dominant convergence trend in sectoral productivity growth across advanced countries.

Productivity Convergence and Asian Trade Blocks

2016 ◽  
pp. 92-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiranjib Neogi
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Absolute Convergence ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Conditional Convergence ◽  
Productivity Convergence ◽  
Penn World Table ◽  
Trade Blocks ◽  
Standard Tests

The present chapter tries to examine the trend of productivity growth and the process of convergence of productivity among the countries within three blocks viz., ASEAN, APEC and SAARC, using the data compiled by R. Summers and A. Heston in Penn World Table -Mark 5.6 and 7.1. Applying Galton model of the growth process it indicates that the countries within ASEAN and SAARC block do not show any convergence of productivity during the period 1960 to 2010. However, the countries within APEC show the sign of convergence of productivity. Standard tests for convergence show that only the APEC group of countries satisfies the test of absolute convergence that is significant whereas ASEAN and SAARC fail to satisfy the test of absolute convergence. The application of the test of conditional convergence on the ASEAN group of countries does not satisfy the criteria of convergence conditioned by the volume of investment but it shows strong tendency of conditional convergence of productivity among the countries of SAARC trade block.

Vietnam: Decollectivization and Rice Productivity Growth

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhu L. Pingali ◽  
Vo-Tong Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Rice Productivity
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