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Data Envelopment Analysis in Environmental Valuation: Environmental Performance, Eco-efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika - EconWPA - 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable production units such as firms. Although the method is already extensively applied in many areas of economics, its use in environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The...

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The environmental performance of commercial buildings

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

At the request of the Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, the Assistant Treasurer asked the Commission to undertake a research study examining the performance of commercial buildings and analyse any impediments to better performance of such buildings and how to overcome them. The study...

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Environmental Shareholder Value Matrix. Konzeption, Anwendung und Berechnung

Figge, Frank; Hahn, Tobias - EconWPA - 2004

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value ist in den letzten Jahren Thema einer Vielzahl von … Publikationen gewesen. Dass gutes Umweltmanagement grundsätzlich auch Shareholder Value schaffen kann, ist heute weitgehend …. Hierdurch wird deutlich, ob und wie das Umweltmanagement Shareholder Value schafft. Die Studie zeigt außerdem, wie der Beitrag …

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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit

Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004

Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert … Environmental Shareholder Value auf und zeigt, wie betriebliches Umweltmanagement positiv auf die Werttreiber des Shareholder Value … betriebliche Umweltmanagement sicherstellen muss, dass Unternehmen auf zukünftige „ökologische“ Herausforderungen reagieren können …

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Implementation of ecologically sustainable development by Commonwealth departments and agencies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 24 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) by Commonwealth departments and agencies to the Commission for inquiry and report within nine months of receipt of the reference.

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Environmental management: analytical approximate solutions to the problem of detecting optimal random audit schemes

Ferretti, Paola - EconWPA - 2004

In the contest of environmental management, the problem of minimizing the expected cost due to random checking processes and a possible failure is here addressed. Non-homogeneous Poisson checking processes with continuous non-decreasing intensity are considered, leading to the explicit detection...

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The Role of Auctions in Allocating Public Resources

Chan, Chris; Laplagne, Patrick; Appels, David - EconWPA - 2003

This paper provides an economic framework within which to consider the effectiveness and limitations of auction markets. The paper looks at the use of auctions as a policy instrument and the effects of auction design on consumer interests, the efficient allocation of resources, and industry...

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Firm Performance and Compensation Structure: Performance Elasticities of Average Employee Compensation

Rayton, Bruce A. - EconWPA - 1996

Agency costs are a cost of production, and firms that do a better job of minimizing these costs should exhibit better performance. This paper tests this hypothesis by calculating the performance elasticity of average employee hourly compensation for U.S. manufacturing firms. This elasticity...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), role of ownership structure on capital structure and firm performance in East Asian corporattions remains much unexplored. Within the framework of Bajaj et al. (1998), the present paper empirically examines the effects of a controlling manager...

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