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Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not … compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam … Differentiale heranführen dienen zugleich der Verbesserung der Effizienz und der Gerechtigkeit. …
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In both developed and developing countries, there are basically two main sources of economic instability: exogenous shocks and inappropriate policies. Exogenous shock (terms-of-trade shocks, natural disasters and capital flow reversals) can throw an economy into disequilibrium and therefore...
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efficiency of organizations. …
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The study examined the extent to which digital revolution has affected the organizational structure of Nigerian banks. Twenty-five banks were selected for the study in south-western Nigeria. Interview was conducted for middle and top level managers and questionnaire was developed and...
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The aim of this study is to provide a methodology for the joint estimation of efficiency and market power of individual … differences in the market power and efficiency levels of banks between the two samples. Market power estimates indicate fairly … some banks deviates from the average behavior, and this finding has important policy implications. Finally, efficiency and …
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I introduce a property of player's valuations that ensures the existence of an ex post efficient equilibrium in asymmetric English auctions. The use of this property has the advantage of yielding an ex post efficient equilibrium without assuming differentiability of valuations or that signals...
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This paper examines the social opportunity cost of a hypothetical public project in Australia and compares these values with the cost of the project as measured by factor prices. Since 2001, the Australian taxation system has included an ad valorem tax, the Goods and Services Tax, however...
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banks - as issuers of cash and as institutions with a mandate to foster the efficiency of payment systems in general. It is … greater emphasis on improving the efficiency of retail payments and less on protecting their self-interest. More concretely …
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spot to futures. Risk constancy or neutrality, equality of risk premium and spot price, and efficiency were rejected for … the period 18, 51, and 33 weeks or more to maturity. However, simultaneity of risk neutrality and efficiency was accepted …
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efficiency is in place. Here we address the question of technical efficiency with respect to university’s size. The crucial … concept in this analysis is conditional efficiency and the ratio of size-conditional to unconditional efficiency measures. In … particular we take use of robust order-m efficiency scores presented in Cazals, Florens and Simar (2002) and generalized in …
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