discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …

The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …

, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … between relative efficiency, farm size and environmentally friendly behavior realizing a non parametric regression of …

industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …

important policy tools that the central bank may adopt to improve the technical and economic efficiency of payment systems. …Central bank spending on the operation of inter-bank funds transfer systems may range from below one million to nearly … efficiency in different countries and under alternative policy approaches. The key findings are as follows. First, strong scale …