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A COMPARISON OF THREE NONPARAMETRIC MEASURES OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN EUROPEAN AND UNITED STATES AGRICULTURE
Author(s) -
Bureau JeanChristophe,
Färe Rolf,
Grosskopf Shawna
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1995.tb00778.x
Subject(s) - productivity , nonparametric statistics , agriculture , agricultural productivity , econometrics , economics , agricultural economics , yield (engineering) , macroeconomics , geography , archaeology , materials science , metallurgy
Productivity growth is an important source of improvements in the standard of living. In this paper, we compare three nonparametric measures of productivity, namely the Fisher, the Hulten and the Malmquist measure. Our application of these measures to the agricultural sectors of nine EC countries and the US over the period 1973 to 1989 yield similar patterns of productivity growth.