Abstract
Solow’s total factor productivity (TFP) equation is revisit ed in a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) context. Linked-cone (LC) profit ratios were used to measure the capital share and, in turn, TFP growth for the United States. Market imperfections are allowed for, and the role of slacks is evaluated. For the years 1980, 1985, and 1990, DEA methods were applied to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data for ten leading industrialized nations, namely, Canada, United States (U.S.), Japan, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and United Kingdom. For the U.S., the LC estimates of TFP growth were noticeably greater than the TFP estimates using the standard growth accounting approach; and similarly, the LC estimates of TFP growth were greater than the TFP estimates using Malmquist indexes. Unfortunately, ignoring slacks in Malmquist indexes may well bias the efficiency measures and, in turn, the TFP growth estimates.
Keywords
- Total Factor Productivity
- Total Factor Productivity Growth
- Malmquist Index
- Capital Share
- Total Factor Productivity Growth Rate
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One of the most important steps that a country can make to become competitive is to achieve economic efficiency
Nobel Laureate L. Klein [12]
DEA is an advanced operations research (OR)/management science (MS) method called Data Envelopment Analysis; and AR is an assurance region method used to bound the modeled prices (multipliers) in the DEA model. Linked-cones (LCs) provide a linkage of the input and output multiplier bounds.
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Thompson, R.G., Waltz, E.A., Dharmapala, P.S., Thrall, R.M. (1997). Linked-Cone Profit Ratio Estimates of U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth, Using DEA/AR Methods. In: Amman, H., Rustem, B., Whinston, A. (eds) Computational Approaches to Economic Problems. Advances in Computational Economics, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2644-2_6
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