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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …
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Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Republic of Kazakhstan - Bank Profitability and Competition
World Bank - 2013
context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational … costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …
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The Home Carrier Advantage in Civil Aviation
Lijesen, Mark; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
This paper analyzes the relative economic power position of home carriers in hub-and-spoke systems. Hub-and-spoke systems may lower costs on densely traveled routes and enable economically viable operations on less densely traveled routes. The reverse side is probably that carriers enjoy...
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Second-degree Price Discrimination and Inter-group Effects in Airline Routes between European Cities
Alderighi, Marco; Cento, Alessandra; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper presents a model of second-degree price discrimination and inter-group effects to describe the full-service pricing behaviour in the passenger aviation market. Consumer heterogeneity is assumed on both a horizontal and a vertical dimension, while various distinct market structures,...
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Illinois Walls
Schinkel, Maarten Pieter; Tuinstra, Jan; Rüggeberg, Jakob - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
In its landmark ruling in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted standing to sue for recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to intermediaries lower in the chain of production and...
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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...
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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediate steps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producing a consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effects correctly...
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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance
Praag, B.M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary value for individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction as scored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....
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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors – An Application to Tourist Regions in I...
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
of DEA in order to derive a more appropriate efficiency-improving projection model by means of a weighted projection …
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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities
Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...
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