Factors Determining the Total Productivity Growth in the Iraq Stock Market for the Period (2009-2017)

Abstract

The research aims to measure the total productivity of companies in the Iraqi Stock Market, in addition to identify internal factors that affect the overall productivity growth rates of market's companies during the period (2009-2017). It was relied on the application of Econometric methods through the application of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis model based on the half-normal distribution function, as this model contributes to the interpretation of the total error components into lack of productivity and random error, using (75) companies for a period of (9) years.