79216 - Measurements of Productivity, Competitiveness and Efficiency

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistics, Economics and Business (cod. 8876)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge needed to define productivity, efficiency and competitiveness measurement models in order to address the issues of estimating panel data models in the analysis of convergence and economic growth.

Course contents

Measurement and analysis .

Measures of general and partial productivity of labor and capital. Global Productivity; lindices of Kendrick and Solow. Total factor productivity.

Methods of decomposition of productivity. Relationship between productivity, employment and growth.

Growth and development.

The theory of growth and development. Neoclassical model and conditional convergence tests. Clubs Convergence.

Cross-countries based analysis: panel data models; measurement, estimation and tests.

Spatial growth models.

Readings/Bibliography

Eurostat, Methodologies and working papers, 2006, 31st CEIES Seminar: Are we measuring productivity correctly?

Extra material will be provided by the Prof.Bernardini Papalia

Teaching methods

Teachers lectures supplemented with tutorials or laboratory experiment sessions

Assessment methods

Written exam

For students attending the course

A group work is planned:

  • Two real data exemples related to the topics discussed in the course to be solved in lab (max 5 students) and to be completed by the date of the first exam.
  • Classroom presentation of one paper is scheduled by the end of the course (max 20 minutes; the material is partially provided by the teacher).

Group work evaluation can lead to an increase in the final evaluation from 0 to a maximum of 4 points.

Written intermediate exam if required by the students attending the course. In this case, the results obtained in the first partial test will only contribute to the final evaluation if the student completes the second partial test in one of the first two planned written texts.

Teaching tools

Teaching material available on the web.

Reference distribution list: rossella.bernardini.app

Teaching tools

Slides and teaching materials - exercises and examples - concerning lectures are prepared by the teacher and available on line (via Reference distribution list).

Topics are presented using pc and video-projector.

Office hours

See the website of Rosa Bernardini Papalia