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Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not … compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam … Differentiale heranführen dienen zugleich der Verbesserung der Effizienz und der Gerechtigkeit. …
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aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …
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This paper aims at evaluating the efficiency of public healthcare systems in Europe by applying a nonparametric method …. Findings reveal that there are a number of both developed and developing countries on the efficiency frontier, while the great …
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. which attracted more and more customers using the banking’ services; the efficiency of the banking system also has been … increasing. So far, there is still a lack of research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam over the decades … front gate. This paper, which focuses on evaluating the efficiency of bigger sample size of Vietnamese commercial banks in …
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most important characteristics of the banking – efficiency and stability in a sample of twelve Ukrainian banks, which are … the biggest one in Ukraine according the National bank of Ukraine (NBU) classification. Our research covers the period … corporate social responsibility concept (CSR) of the following independent variables: 1 – efficiency (as a short term period …
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This article analyzes the profitability of the banks in six European countries between 1994 and 1997. We deal with the link between profitability and certain external and interns' determinants of European banking system. Following a methodology of panel analysis with a fixed individual effects...
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This article estimates returns to scale and monopolistic markups on a large sample of Polish firms in the manufacturing and services sectors during 1996-2004. Methodology based on instrumental variables allows joint estimation of both, scale elasticities as well as markups, while the unobserved...
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This paper reviews the trends in Indian Agriculture before and after the introduction of the economic reforms, and the advent of WTO regime. We employ the Cobb Douglas Production Function using the OLS specification to investigate the determinants of agricultural gross domestic product for the...
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In empirical regional economics, returns to scale are typically estimated at the regional level in search for evidence on alternative theories of growth and agglomeration. However, returns to scale may also have a firm-level dimension. In this paper, we exploit micro level data and estimate the...
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This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents evaluate differently the contested stake. Differently from common contest models, agents have the option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict....
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