The distribution and heterogeneity of technical efficiency within industries: An empirical assessment

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with firm-specific fixed effects. A new measure is also introduced for characterizing the extent of heterogeneity within an industry that is robust with regard to extreme values of a few small firms. It was found that the level of intra-industry heterogeneity is mainly determined by an industries' average technical efficiency, average firm size, capital intensity and the rate of new firm formation. Most strikingly, we find that in about 95 percent of industries the distribution of technical efficiency is skewed to the right, not to the left as is commonly assumed.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Freiberger Arbeitspapiere ; No. 2004/12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General ; Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
• Thema: Technical efficiency ; heterogeneity ; deterministic production function frontier ; Technische Effizienz ; Heterogenität ; Deterministische Frontier-Produktionsfunktion ; Technische Effizienz ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Schätzung ; Deutschland ; Statistische Verteilung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fritsch, Michael ; Stephan, Andreas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
• (wo): Freiberg
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48373
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ