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PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN APEC COUNTRIES
Author(s) -
Chambers Robert G.,
Fāure Rolf,
Grosskopf Shawna
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.1996.tb00184.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , productivity , economics , sample (material) , function (biology) , econometrics , macroeconomics , physics , thermodynamics , linguistics , philosophy , evolutionary biology , government (linguistics) , biology
. This paper introduces a new technique for measuring productivity growth and applies it to a sample of APEC countries. The technique is based on a version of Luenberger's shortage function which generalizes Shephard's input and output distance functions.