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| Author: | Borger, B. de Kerstens, K. |
| Title: | The Malmquist productivity index and plant capacity utilization |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2000 : JUN, VOL. 102:2, p. 303-310 |
| Index terms: | Production Capacity Industrial plant Input-output analysis Productivity Theories |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A new decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index is proposed to account for changes in plant capacity utilization. Using a primal, non-parametric specification of technology, the Malmquist index is decomposed into technical efficiency change, variations in plant capacity utilization and frontier shifts. It provides an alternative to the available methods of incorporating capacity utilization changes into measures of productivity change. Such measures base on parametric technology specifications, typically not allowing for technical inefficiency. |
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