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Controlling for environmental conditions in regulatory benchmarking
Heesche, Emil; Asmild, Mette - 2020
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is often used by regulators to create a pseudo-competitive environment for sectors with natural monopolies. In addition to develop a theoretically well-behaved model, regulators need to take into account several other factors, such as the political agenda and the...
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Overall assessment of environmental sustainability : the Portuguese water industry case
Tralhão, Sandra; Martins, Rita; Costa, João Paulo - In: Notas económicas 47 (2018), pp. 47-58
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Environmental performance and equilibrium
Bréchet, Thierry; Michel, Philippe - 2004
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Innovative local policy instruments enabling sustainable innovation : benchmarking worldwide best practices
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Pegoraro, Arianna; Tapia, Carlos - In: Argomenti : rivista di economia, cultura e ricerca sociale 16 (2020), pp. 101-131
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Political connections and corporate environmental protection-related investment : setting a benchmark or shrinking back?
Lin, Yan; Mao, Yihuan; Tan, Hongtao - In: China journal of accounting studies 8 (2020) 3, pp. 349-379
Protecting environment has become a vital responsibility for corporations. Based on manually collected data of China’s A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2017, this study investigates the effìct of corporate political connections (PCs) on corporate environmental protection-related...
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The use of eco-development programs for the assessment of environmental changes and the effectiveness of pro-ecological actions of local government administration at municipal leve...
Lewandowski, Piotr; Zydlik, Piotr - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 2, pp. 303-317
modernized or newly commissioned municipal sewage treatment plants. Among employees of local government administration the role …
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Ecology and new urban program : a case study of Penang state ownbrand of affordable housing program
Woo, Kuan Heong; Khoo, Suet Leng - In: Journal of urban management 9 (2020) 2, pp. 168-179
Ecological factors have tremendous impacts on administrative machinery. It is understood that public administration at … any level of government is in a causal relationship with its ecology.Investigating the ecology of public administration is … administration. In order to provide steady support to those changes, it requires an atmosphere in which political leadership, the …
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Quality and its impact on efficiency
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2019
The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields of study including production economics, operations research, engineering and business management. In this paper we provide a methodology for identifying latent quality...
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Benchmarking the Lisbon Strategy
Ioannou, Demosthenes; Ferdinandusse, Marien; Lo Duca, Marco - 2008
role of benchmarking as a means of improving the implementation record of structural reforms in the European Union. Against … this background, the paper puts forward a possible avenue for developing a strong form of quantitative benchmarking, namely …
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Benchmarking unemployment benefits in the EU
Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - 2012
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