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Are Economic Fundamentals Unable to Explain Current European Benchmark Yields? Empirical Evidence from a Continuous Time Affine Term Structure Model
Jakas, Vicente - 2013
, by using an affine term structure (ATS) model with the following four state variables: (i) the EU unemployment rate, (ii …) the EU production price index, (iii) the ECB monetary aggregate M3 index and, (iv) the EU consumer confidence index. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088387
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Persistent heterogeneity of R&D intensities within sectors : evidence and policy implications
Coad, Alexander - 2017
true. A closer examination, using microdata from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard for the years 2000-2015, shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989279
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Financial portfolio performance of Belgian households : a nonparametric assessment
Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Saelens, Dieter - 2024
We analyze the financial portfolio performance of Belgian households, using data from the 2010, 2014 and 2017 waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey survey. We document the characteristics of households that participate in risky asset markets, and we examine which households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520151
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European railway deregulation : the influence of regulatory and environmental conditions on efficiency
Wetzel, Heike (contributor) - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709952
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Heterogeneous policies, heterogeneous technologies : the case of renewable energy
Nicolli, Francesco; Vona, Francesco - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437052
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International benchmarking in electricity distribution : a comparison of French and German utilities
Cullmann, Astrid (contributor); Crespo, Hélène (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and … benchmarking approaches to assess the relative technical efficiency of the utilities, such as deterministic Corrected Ordinary … utilities. -- International benchmarking ; electricity distribution ; parametric efficiency analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779463
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Unobserved heterogeneity and international benchmarking in public transport
Cullmann, Astrid; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo - 2009
We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003915868
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Salesperson efficiency benchmarking using sales response data : who is working hard and working smart?
Bielecki, André; Albers, Sönke; Mantrala, Murali K. - 2012
the process of internal efficiency benchmarking of a firm's sales representatives aimed at identifying strong and weak … DEA benchmarking that simply uses raw sales calls as input measures, the proposed model that uses more 'processing' of the … ; Salesperson Benchmarking ; Data Envelopment Analysis ; Efficiency Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533312
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Stylised properties of the interest rate term structure under the benchmark approach
Fergusson, Kevin; Platen, Eckhard - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344800
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CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts : a question of governance
Bell, Brian; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529636