Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Balk, B.M. Author-Name-Last: Balk Author-Name-First: Bert Title: The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with respect to Productivity Abstract: Inaugural address given in shortened form at the occasion of accepting the appointment as professor of business administration, in particular the measurement of price, quantity, and productivity changes and economic-statistical research, supported by Statistics Netherlands, at the Rotterdam School of Management / Faculteit Bedrijfskunde of Erasmus University Rotterdam on Friday, November 9, 2001 Creation-Date: 2001-11-09 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/300/EIA-007-MKT.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:euriar Number: EIA-2001-007-MKT Classification-JEL: C44, M, M31 Keywords: Total Factor Productivity, decomposition, firm level data, index number theory, producer behaviour, profitability Handle: RePEc:ems:euriar:300