Choice of flexible functional form in total factor productivity measurement.

• Main Author: Tan, Melvyn Chwee Hock.
• Other Authors: Tan, Randolph
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Management::Productivity
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20220
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis makes a number of contributions to productivity measurement in the Singapore context. First, a single output, four input panel database is developed thirty manufacturing industries at the 3 Digit Singapore Standard Industrial Classification level from 1980 to 1991. The second contributio...