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the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different …
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Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...
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Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier...
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Diese Arbeit analysiert die Verteilung von technischer Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes …. Die technische Effizienz wird als firmenspezifischer fixer Effekt im Rahmen einer deterministischen Frontier … relativ robust hinsichtlich einzelner extremer Werte erweist. Das Ausmaß an Heterogenität von technischer Effizienz innerhalb …
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?Ein neuer Ansatz zur Messung allokativer Effizienz ? Sind Input-Preise wirklich erforderlich?? Der traditionelle … Ansatz zur Messung allokativer Effizienz erfordert Informationen über Input-Preise der Unternehmen, die allerdings nur selten … vorliegen. In diesem Aufsatz schlagen wir eine neue Methode zur Bestimmung der allokativen Effizienz vor, der als wesentliche …
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This paper looks into various models that address strategic behavior in the supply of gas by the Mexican monopoly Pemex. The paper has three very strong technical results. First, the netback pricing rule for the price of domestic natural gas (based on a Houston benchmark price) leads to...
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We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general …-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions … after calibrating the model to the euro area against the rest of the industrial world. First, greater competition produces …
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financial system in which there is intense competition among banks for private households' funds. Following earlier work by … contracts is restrained by households' financial market access. However, we also assume spatial monopolistic competition among … monopoly rents also entails a positive effect; however, this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does …
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This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
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In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the robustness of our estimates and to test the hypothesis of...
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