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Meta-frontier analysis of technology gap for efficiency and productivity comparisons across different sub-groups of EU-27 countries

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  • Christina Bampatsou

    (Ionian University)

  • George Halkos

    (University of Thessaly)

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This paper adopts the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure technical efficiency (TE), technical efficiency change (TEC) and technical change (TC) scores across four sub-groups of EU-27 countries for the period 1995-2019. Then metafrontier frameworks are used to evaluate technological gap ratio (TGR) and also catch-up effect achieved by each Group of EU-27 countries. In the last step we conduct a bootstrap second stage regression analysis by highlighting the influence of different variables on both efficiency scores and TGR values.

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  • Christina Bampatsou & George Halkos, 2022. "Meta-frontier analysis of technology gap for efficiency and productivity comparisons across different sub-groups of EU-27 countries," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 42(3), pages 1413-1421.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-22-00354
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    Keywords

    DEA; Technical Efficiency Change; Technical Change; Catch-up effect; Technical change ratio; Two stage estimation;
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    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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