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Measuring Eco-efficiency of Production: A Frontier Approach

Kortelainen, Mika; Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2004

Eco-efficiency of production is an important concept both from the viewpoint of society and business community; but as yet, there is no unambiguous way to its measurement. The purpose of this paper is to present a general measurement framework based on production theory and the activity analysis...

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Convergence in Mississippi: A Spatial Approach.

Nica, Mihai - EconWPA - 2004

Mississippi constitutes an interesting case study for analyzing the income convergence process because of several characteristics, such as the fairly large number of counties, its relative homogeneous economy and its low percapita income compared with the rest of the U.S. This study analyzes the...

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The Economic Incentives for Sharing Security Information

Gal-Or, Esther; Ghose, Anindya - EconWPA - 2005

Given that Information Technology (IT) security has emerged as an important issue in the last few years, the subject of security information sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize security breaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. To promote the disclosure and sharing...

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Correlating Growth with Well-Being during Economic Reforms Evidence from India and China

Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

. The regional (16 Indian states and 28 Chinese provinces) level study of India and China show that the quality of growth …

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Fear of China: Is there a future for manufacturing in Latin America?

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - EconWPA - 2004

China’s emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. Once saw as its … practical terms, by at least three generations of Asian Tigers. China and its “unlimited supply of labor”, rapid productivity …, productivity, scale and the government role, all work together to make China a formidable competitor. The importance of this …

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Chinese Regional Agricultural Productivity in the 1990'a

Tong, Haizhi; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural productivity growth in Chinese provinces during the 1990’s. Results for both methods indicate high productivity growth in the mid 1990’s with a declining trend thereafter....

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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region

Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005

China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …

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Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment

Lin, Chu-Chia S.; Png, Ivan - EconWPA - 2002

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Has the Emergence of China Hurt Asian Exports?

Bhattacharya, Amar; Ghosh, Swati; Jansen, W. Jos - EconWPA - 2003

negatively affected by the rise of China. Using a panel data approach, we find that increases in world market shares of China are …

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Does Asian foreign exchange intervention really hurt Europe? Lessons from a three-asset portfolio model

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

In the current policy debate, it is often argued that foreign exchange interventions by Asian central banks lead to an excessive appreciation of the euro against the dollar. This paper shows that in a three asset portfolio model the opposite holds: Interventions by Japan's central bank...

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