Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest …

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 …

infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to … inform policy decisions, we show that the transfers required by the efficient mechanism create a mutual insurance motive …

investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …

health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …