information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are … compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … reference level threshold in terms of efficiency towards less deforestation. In terms of expected welfare, conditional avoided …

positive effect of ownership concentration on firm performance matters more in countries with weak investor protection and that … private domestic ownership leads to higher performance. …

provides an empirical analysis on how individuals’ relative income position affects their performance. Using a unique data set … income differences within a team, the worse the performance of the soccer players is. The more the players are integrated in …

and environmental aspects are considered as equally relevant. In particular, the focus is on the comparison and efficiency … assessment of Italian municipalities located on the costal areas. In order to assess the efficiency status of the considered … management units, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units …

in evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units. We consider here two possible applications of … applied to compute a relative efficiency score, which accounts for environmental and social benefits and costs interpreted as …

This study uses the EU public power generating sector as a case study to investigate the environmental efficiency and … productivity enhancing performance of the European Union’s CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in its pilot phase. Using Data … Envelopment Analysis methods, we measure the environmental efficiency and the productivity growth registered in public power …

management efficiency per se may not provide enough information concerning long-term performances, which is what sustainability … of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key … and compare tourism destinations, not only in terms of tourism services supply, but also in terms of the performance of …

efficiency of natural parks’ management not only internally (comparing the performance of the park to itself in time) but also by … technique specifically developed to assess the relative efficiency of decision-making units. In particular, the objective of the … discussed methodology is to assess the relative efficiency of the management units of the protected area and to indicate how it …