The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with Respect to Productivity

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-47

  Balk, Bert M ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Firm level data; Index number theory; Producer behavior; Profitability; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043212155     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024817024364     Document Type: Article

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