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Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - 2013

corrected efficiency score correlates well with standard Growth Theory indicators. …, 2008). We propose a theory-based metric using Data Envelopment Analysis which corrects for sample bias and considers …

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Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management : a CGE analysis

Calzadilla, Alvaro (contributor); … - 2008

We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …

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On the robustness of marginal abatement cost curves : the influence of world energy prices

Klepper, Gernot (contributor); Peterson, Sonja (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Sticky information vs. sticky prices : a horse race in a DSGE framework

Trabandt, Mathias (contributor) - 2007

How can we explain the observed behavior of aggregate inflation in response to e.g. monetary policy changes? Mankiw and Reis (2002) have proposed sticky information as an alternative to Calvo sticky prices in order to model the conventional view that i) inflation reacts with delay and gradually...

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Web use and offshoring

Hanley, Aoife; Ott, Ingrid - 2009

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing the dovetailing of operations between two neither...

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Individual expectations and aggregate behavior in learning to forecast experiments

Hommes, Cars H. (contributor); Lux, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

Models with heterogeneous interacting agents explain macro phenomena through interactions at the micro level. We propose genetic algorithms as a model for individual expectations to explain aggregate market phenomena. The model explains all stylized facts observed in aggregate price fluctuations...

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Accounting for context : separating monetary and social incentives

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2014 - This Version: October 7, 2014

This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a game theoretic framework which explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse contextual effects. Moreover, the framework is used to...

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Europe's entry into the venture capital business : efficiency and policy

Stolpe, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Funding, competition and the efficiency of NGOs : an empirical analysis of non-charitable expenditure of US NGOs engaged in foreign aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non …

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Contingent trade policy and economic efficiency

McCalman, Phillip; Stähler, Frank; Willmann, Gerald - 2013

This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market …, justifying the use of contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Despite an environment of asymmetric information, contingent …

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