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Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms' productive inefficiency?

Chaffai, Mohamed; Kinda, Tidiane; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011

-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …

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What are Households Willing to Pay for Better Tap Water Quality ? A Cross-Country Valuation Study

Beaumais, Olivier; Briand, Anne; Millock, Katrin; … - HAL - 2010

Using a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries, we estimate willingness to pay for better quality of tap water. On the pooled sample, households are only willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the quality of tap water. The highest relative willingness to pay...

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BANCOS FUSIONADOS ¿MÁS EFICIENTES?

Ferro, Gustavo; León, Sonia; Romero, Carlos A. - HAL - 2014

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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MESURE DE LA PERFORMANCE GLOBALE DES AGENCES BANCAIRES : UNE APPLICATION DE LA MÉTHODE DEA

Hubrecht, Aude; Guerra, Fabienne - HAL - 2005

Dans le cadre de l'approche DEA nous mesurons la performance globale des agences bancaires et nous la décomposons en …

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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology

Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011

that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …

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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?

GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...

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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

In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of...

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Identification of Segments of French Urban Public Transport with a Latent Class Frontier Model

Roy, William; Barros, Carlos - HAL - 2007

This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data. The latent class frontier model is used allowing the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant...

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Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?

Arcand, Jean-Louis; Borodak, Daniela - HAL - 2011

productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of … Moldovan small-holders using the four-step Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach suggested by Fried, Schmidt and Yaisawang … productivity observed in our sample, while class membership is slightly more successful. Our empirical model of class structure …

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Value of invention, prolific inventor productivity and mobility: evidence from five countries, 1975-2002

Latham, William; Bas, Christian Le; Volodin, Dmitry - HAL - 2011

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

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