| Course ID: | ECON 8820. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | The Analysis of Productivity |
Course
Description: | Analytical techniques for assessing the sources of and measuring changes in productivity, with microeconomic and macroeconomic empirical applications. |
| Oasis Title: | ANALYSIS OF PROD |
| Prerequisite: | ECON 8010 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the analytical and
empirical techniques required to conduct a sophistcated analysis of the magnitude,
and the sources, of productivity change. The subject of the analysis can be as small
as a firm (or even smaller; the performance of individual physicians has been studied
using these techniques), or as large as a nation. A wide variety of empirical
applications, at various levels of aggregation, will be examined. |
| Topical Outline: | Productivity and Why It Matters
Duality and the Role of Produciton Technology
The Measurement of Productive Efficiency
The Measurement of Productivity Change
Tornqvist, Fisher and Malmquist Productivity Indexes
Productivity and Profitability
Efficiency, Productivity and the Environment
Productivity and Regulation
Productivity and Trade
The Misery Index
The Role of Institutions
Benchmarking
How the Consultants Examine Productivity |