Productive Performance and Technology Gaps using a Bayesian Metafrontier Production Function: A cross-country comparison
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Keywords
Technological heterogeneity; Bayesian approach; Metafrontier; Spillovers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2019-06-24 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-TID-2019-06-24 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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