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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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Environmental performance and equilibrium
Bréchet, Thierry; Michel, Philippe - 2004
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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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Territorial benchmarking methodology : the need to identify reference regions
Navarro Arancegui, Mikel; Gibaja Martíns, Juan José; … - 2011
Benchmarking analysis facilitates the formulation of competitiveness and innovation strategies. It also helps in the … facilitate the development of the three stages that benchmarking exercises should undertake, adding its application to the Basque … Country as an illustrative example. The first requirement of a good benchmarking exercise is the comparability principle, that …
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Mind the gap : a multi-country BVAR benchmark for the Eurosystem projections
Angelini, Elena; Lalik, Magdalena; Lenza, Michele; … - 2019
The Eurosystem staff forecasts are conditional on the financial markets, the global economy and fiscal policy outlook, and include expert judgement. We develop a multi-country BVAR for the four largest countries of the euro area and we show that it provides accurate conditional forecasts of...
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Assessing the distributional impact of budgetary policy : the role of benchmarks and indexation
Callan, Tim; Keane, Claire; Regan, Mark - 2019
This paper examines the potential role for increasing social welfare rates, along with tax credits and bands, in line with price or wage inflation - a process known as indexation. Ireland currently has a default policy of no increases in line with inflation, with ad hoc changes instead announced...
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The potential growth impact of structural reforms in the EU : a benchmarking exercise
Varga, Janos; Veld, Jan in 't - 2014
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Benchmarks for emissions trading - general principles for emissions scope
Zipperer, Vera; Sato, Misato; Neuhoff, Karsten - 2017
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