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Innovation, exports and technical efficiency in Spain

Diaz-Mayans, M. Angeles; Sánchez, Rosario; R - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect … productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions. We use a micro panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms …

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Efficiency, Technological Progress and Regional Comparative Advantage: A Study of Organised Manufacturing Sector in India

Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …

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Wheat Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis

Ahmad, Munir; Chaudhry, Ghulam Mustafa; Iqbal, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to …

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Technical and Environmental efficiencies and Best Management Practices in Agriculture

Tamini, Lota D.; Larue, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …

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Flower farming and flower marketing in West Bengal : a study of efficiency and sustainability

Sarker, Debnarayan; Chakravorty, Sanjukta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

For diversification in agriculture, one of the areas that have emerged as a fast growing sector recently in West Bengal is floriculture. In an attempt to examine empirically the relative efficiency between commercial traditional floriculture and its competing main field crops – Paddy, Jute,...

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The merger paradox and why aspiration levels let it fail in the laboratory

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We study the merger paradox, a relative of Harsanyi's bargaining paradox, in an experiment. We examine bilateral mergers in experimental Cournot markets with initially three or four firms. Standard Cournot-Nash equilibrium predicts total outputs well. However, merged firms produce significantly...

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Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Countries compete for new FDI investment, whereas stocks of FDI generate agglomeration benefits and are potentially subject to extortionary taxation. We study the interaction between these aspects in a simple vintage capital framework with discrete time and an infinite horizon, focussing on...

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

well as increase productivity and reduce turnover. The nature of the management-employee relations with firm size and job …

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“Post financial crisis and exports expansion: Micro-evidence from Chilean exporters”

Álvarez, Roberto; Sáez, Camila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes the performance of Chilean exporting firms during the period after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. After the crisis, world imports increased sustainably, which was used by Chilean firms in particular and the country in general. Specifically, larger firms, and those...

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Teamwork Efficiency and Company Size

Galashin, Mikhail; Popov, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We study how ownership structure and management objectives interact in determining the company size without assuming information constraints or explicit costs of management. In symmetric agent economies, the optimal company size balances the returns to scale of the production function and the...

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