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Ontario's private sector has had zero productivity growth in the latest six year period. Ontario performed much worse … than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure … individual sectors. Ontario had positive productivity growth in the service sector, but underperformed the strong growth found in …
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Credit risk is crucial to understanding banks' production technology and should be explicitly accounted for when modeling the latter. The banking literature has largely accounted for risk by using ex-post realizations of banks' uncertain outputs and the variables intended to capture risk. This...
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This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data … the explanation that the IR between farm size and productivity is due to variation in regions as well as access to …
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Technical advances in retail banking have had profound repercussions for the competitiveness of individual firms and for the sector as a whole. This paper looks at the role played by new technological resources within the context of organizational change and the products and services offered by...
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the electricity system of the Ontario province. Such a mechanism combines a merchant approach with a regulatory approach … seventy eight generators in the Ontario province. The simulation is carried out for both peak and non-peak scenarios …
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This paper uses Statistics Canada's Social Policy Simulation Database and Model to provide estimates of the cumulative … magnitude and distributional impact in 1993 of the tax increases introduced by the NDP government in Ontario in their three … budgets after coming to office in 1990. It finds that the Ontario NDP tax changes have increased the tax burden on the Ontario …
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This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents evaluate differently the contested stake. Differently from common contest models, agents have the option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict....
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This article estimates returns to scale and monopolistic markups on a large sample of Polish firms in the manufacturing and services sectors during 1996-2004. Methodology based on instrumental variables allows joint estimation of both, scale elasticities as well as markups, while the unobserved...
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If the output market is perfectly competitive and the firm’s production function is not concave, an increase in the output price may lead to an explosive increase in firm’s profits at some point. We explore the properties of this point, called a threshold price. We derive the formula for the...
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In the whole world there are strong discussions on how to yield a more equitable access and a more efficient provision. One issue linked to efficiency is the achievement of scale economies in the industry, and the optimal dimension of water and sanitation providers. Changes in the industrial...
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