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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection
Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
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Deep dynamics
Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021
How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...
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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services
Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022
test of organizational efficiency based on the Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley (1959) theorem of combinatorial optimization. …
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Ideas production and international knowledge spillovers : digging deeper into emerging countries
Luintel, Kul Bahadur; Khan, Mosahid - 2017
Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...
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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
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 …
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Voter support for privatizing education : evidence on self-interest and ideology
Merzyn, Wolfram; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2003
Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508114
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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in …, using estimation techniques that correct for measurement error. We develop tools to cope with heteroskedasticity in such …
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What determines differences in foreign bank efficiency? : Australian evidence
Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); Williams, Barry (contributor) - 2005
subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model …This study applies parametric distance functions to estimate the efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, and … efficiency of the profit-creation process. The market share of the incumbent banks acts as a barrier to entry to efficiency in …
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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor);  … - 2005
government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …
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Judicial efficiency and banks credit risk exposure
Canzian, Giulia; Ferrara, Antonella Rita - 2021
We exploit the outset of a regulation seeking to improve judicial efficiency through the rearrangement of courts … reform on both judicial efficiency and Non-Performing Loans ratio. Furthermore, we identify heterogeneous effects based on … indirectly (through judicial efficiency) and directly, thereby influencing borrowers who react to the perceived enforcement. …
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