Institutions, innovation and productive performance

• Main Author: Μάρκο, Ευγενία
• Other Authors: Κουνετάς, Κωσταντίνος
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Institutions; DEA technique; Innovations; Technical efficiency; Scale efficiency; Productivity performance; Θεσμοί; Καινοτομίες; Τεχνική αποτελεσματικότητα; Αποτελεσματικότητα κλίμακας; 339.3

In this dissertation, we investigate the role of two external factors in generating improved Productivity performance of countries. These are the quality of institutions and the extent of innovations. A two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is used to estimate efficiency of 79 countries ove...