SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance
No 405:
Dynamics of Technical Efficiency and Productivity Change under Central Planning: The Romanian Cement Industry 1966-1989
Mihai Cotfas, Almas Heshmati ()
and Lennart Hjalmarsson
Abstract: This paper investigates the time-path of efficiency and
productivity change in the case of the Romanian cement industry 1966-1989.
The analysis is based on different specifications of stochastic frontier
models. The efficiency scores and the time paths of efficiency and
technical change are found to vary substantially among models. The most
important feature of the Romanian cement industry before the revolution in
1989 is a slow rate of productivity progress, and a corresponding catch up
in the level of productive efficiency.
Keywords: Productivity change; productive efficiency; stochastic frontiers; time-varying efficiency; panel data; cement industry; Romania; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: C23; D24; L61; O30; (follow links to similar papers)
27 pages, October 16, 2000
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