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Table 2.1 Decomposition of TFP growth for predivestiture Bell System, 1947–76 27 Table 2.2 Sources of output growth for the US and Japanese electrical machinery industries 41 Table 2.3 Decomposition of labor productivity growth in the US and Japanese electrical machinery industries 41 Table 3.1 Sample firms 139 Table 3.2 OLS estimates of frontier production function 140 Table 3.3 OLS estimates of frontier cost function 141 Table 3.4 Average technical efficiencies 142 Table 3.5 Estimated efficiency distributions for deterministic frontiers 142 Table 3.6 Estimated efficiency distributions for stochastic frontiers 143 Table 3.7 Average estimated technical inefficiency 144 Table 3.8 Maximum likelihood estimates of stochastic frontier production function 144 Table 3.9 Maximum likelihood estimates of stochastic frontier cost function 145 Table 3.10 Airline-specific means of estimated inefficiencies E [ u | ɛ] by MLE 146 Table 3.11 Estimated technical efficiency measures 147 Table 3.12 Fixed effects estimators for production and cost frontiers 147 Table 3.13 Derived estimates of parameters of f ( u ) based on fixed effects 148 Table 3.14 Random effects estimators of production and cost frontiers 149 Table 3.15 Test statistics for fixed versus random effects 150 Table 3.16 Estimated inefficiencies for the LSDV and random effects estimators 150 Table 3.17 Farrell measures of technical ... log in or subscribe to read full text