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Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range of advanced estimation techniques to overcome problems of non …
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social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) model. Particularly, we calculate the technical efficiency and … environmental efficiency from a SFA model and use them as dependent variables of the model. Moreover, we investigate the social …
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. 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 …
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This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data …
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Production frontiers and inefficiency determinants are estimated by using stochastic models. Textile manufacturing is considered for a sample of eight developing countries encompassing about one thousand firms. We find that the most influential individual inefficiency determinants relate to...
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This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain … productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of … Moldovan agriculture. We find that differences in technical efficiency explain very little of the great heterogeneity in …
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Recent changes to Canadian bankruptcy law provide a natural experiment that we use to evaluate the impact of the international trend towards Chapter 11-style reorganization laws. Comparing random samples of reorganizing firms from before and after the law change show that changes to the law are...
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This paper proposes a new formulation of the theory of social norms. The theoretical model explores the interrelation between individuals' income, time-use and consumption decisions on the one hand, and the determinants of their decision to conform or not to social norms on the other. It is...
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framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of … efficiency and equity generally reinforce themselves in their negative or positive aspects. This analysis also showed that these …
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Se miden las ganancias potenciales de eficiencia de cinco fusiones de bancos, producidas entre 2005 y 2011, analizándolas con la metodología de análisis envolvente de datos. Dadas las divergencias entre modelos de rendimientos constantes y variables, se testean rendimientos para discernir...
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