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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …
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increasing returns and strategic behavior:the worker/firm ratio
vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134456
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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence
Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003
This paper uses firm level data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Business Longitudinal Survey to help fill the information gap about the characteristics of successful exporters. This study suggests that the main influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing...
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Does firm size really affect earnings?
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper we investigate the implications of labour and capital market imperfections for the relationship between firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect cannot be explained by either the observed or unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118838
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Stock Valuation and Investment Strategies
Chen, Zhiwu; Dong, Ming - EconWPA - 2004
This article studies the relative investment performance of several stock-valuation measures. The first is mispricing based on the valuation model developed by Bakshe and Chen (1998)and extended by Dong (1998) (hereafter, the BCD model). The BCD model relates, in closed form, a stock's fair...
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Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates
Fraser, Iain; Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2002
A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported. The confidence intervals are constructed using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076575
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
productivity change is of 11.66%. The overall averages provide evidence of productivity improvements of 173.29 over 1980-81(base ….20 while the contribution of capital deepening is 42.52% TO ACCOUNT for 173.20% overall PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE(not point to point … below for the growth accounting exercise which can totally account for point to point and overall productivity changes from …
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
.Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in 1966,1971,1976 and 1981.Japan,UK,Belgium,Ireland,Indonesia,Spain and Germany … 1966-2000. We also decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the … the European countries it is the technical changes which has contributed to labour productivity changes between 1966 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408241
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
.Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in 1966,1971,1976 and 1981.Japan,UK,Belgium,Ireland,Indonesia,Spain and Germany … 1966-2000. We also decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the … the European countries it is the technical changes which has contributed more to labour productivity changes between 1966 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556715
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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency index with the efficiency indexes of some selected...
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