An index number method for estimating scale economies and technical progress using time-series of cross-section data: Sources of total factor productivity growth for Japanese manufacturing, 1964-1988

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 310-334

  Nakajima, Takanobu ^a   Nakamura, Masao ^b   Yoshioka, Kanji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; INDEX METHOD; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0031679422     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5876.00086     Document Type: Article

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