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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient …-level efficiency. …
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This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data …
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This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market … contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Contingent trade policy that seeks to maximize global welfare can avoid the …
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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
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We consider competitive markets for multiple commodities with endogenous formation of one- or two-person households. Within each two-person household, externalities from the partner’s commodity consumption and unpriced actions are allowed. Each individual has two types of traits: observable...
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productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …
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(MGMM), exploiting straight-forward modifications of the instruments, can achieve substantial efficiency gains and bias …
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investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …
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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten …
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries— Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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