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Health Insurance Reform and Efficiency of Township Hospitals in Rural China: An Analysis from Survey Data
Audibert, Martine; Huang, Xiao Xian; Mathonnat, Jacky; … - HAL - 2012
. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is … the efficiency of township hospitals through a two-stage approach. As curative and preventive medical services delivered … different orientation chosen to compute scores. Results show that technical efficiency declines over time. Factors explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001268
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Is Wikipedia Inefficient? Modelling Effort and Participation in Wikipedia
CROWSTON, Kevin; JULLIEN, Nicolas; ORTEGA, Felipe - HAL - 2013
compare the efficiency of Wikipedia projects in different languages and at different states of development to examine this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820569
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LA CONCEPTION DE LA TECHNOLOGIE COMME BOITE NOIRE PAR LE CONTROLE DE GESTION BANCAIRE : LA MESURE DE LA PERFORMANCE OPERATIONNELLE DES AGENCES PAR LA METHODE DEA (DATA ENVELOPMENT...
Thenet, Gervais; Guillouzo, Raymond - HAL - 2002
En intégrant la variable technologique, cet article décline les concepts d'" X Efficiency " et de " performance …
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Quantitative selection of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis
Nguyen-Thi-Thanh, Huyen - HAL - 2006
Previous studies have documented that Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) could be a good tool to evaluate fund performance,especially the performance of hedge funds as it can incorporatemultiple risk-return attributes characterizing hedge fund's nonnormal return distribution in an unique performance...
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On the Use of Data Envelopment Analysis in Hedge Fund Performance Appraisal
Nguyen-Thi-Thanh, Huyen - HAL - 2006
This paper aims to show that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an efficient tool to assist investors in multiple criteria decision-making tasks like assessing hedge fund performance. DEA has the merit of offering investors the possibility to consider simultaneously multiple evaluation criteria...
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Lift ticket prices and quality in French ski resorts: Insights from a non-parametric analysis
Wolff, François Charles - HAL - 2014
Using a unique data set with 168 ski resorts located in France, this paper investigates the relationship between lift ticket prices and supply-related characteristics of ski resorts. A nonparametric analysis combined with a principal component analysis is used to identify the set of efficient...
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Lift ticket prices and quality in French ski resorts: Insights from a non-parametric analysis
Wolff, Francois-Charles - HAL - 2014
Using a unique data set with 168 ski resorts located in France, this paper investigates the relationship between lift ticket prices and supply-related characteristics of ski resorts. A non-parametric analysis combined with a principal component analysis is used to identify the set of efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821392
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Islamic Private Equity
Chatti, Mohamed Ali; Yousfi, Ouidad - HAL - 2011
The Islamic private equity (IPE) market has grown dramatically over the last few years. There are some similarities between venture capital (VC) and some traditional methods in Islamic financing. In medieval Islamic societies it is hard to pinpoint the starting of IPE but there were partnership...
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Risk in Islamic Banking
Abedifar, Pejman; Molyneux, Philip; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2012
This paper investigates risk and stability features of Islamic banking using a sample of 553 banks from 24 countries between 1999 and 2009. Small Islamic banks that are leveraged or based in countries with predominantly Muslim populations have lower credit risk than conventional banks. In terms...
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Economic freedom in Muslim countries: an explanation using the theory of institutional path dependency
Facchini, François - HAL - 2013
law was of great importance, European colonisation, and the contemporary era with its movement towards a revival of Islam … just the century of Westernisation. It was also the century of the revival of Islam. The article concludes that the history … is a dependency on the past and on an imagined future. Islam acts, like yesterday, on the world of institutional …
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