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The impact of coordination and information on transport procurement

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Transport cost is second in importance after production cost in industry. It is the purpose of the present paper to study the impact of information sharing and contractual instruments between a supply chain and its transport suppliers. After reviewing the literature, we propose a model to...

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Determinants of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Livelihood Strategies in Rural Communities: Evidence from Eastern Nigeria

Adi, A. Bongo - EconWPA - 2005

the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture as well as the manner in which different agro …-ecological determinants affect such diversification. The probability of participating in non-agricultural activities was estimated in an …-climactic variables were found to determine the nature of diversification. Against the backdrop of the recent deagrarianisation thesis …

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Growth patterns and economic performance of french manufacturing firms

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

Since early 1994, there have been signs of an upturn in economic activity . The strength and scope of the recovery depend to a large extent on the ability of companies to exploit their competitiveness, which is dependent on the decisions they take today, particularly where both tangible and...

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A Super Efficiency Model for Product Evaluation

Staat, Matthias; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2004

This study applies a Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis model to evaluate the efficiency of cars sold on the German market. Efficiency is conceptualized from a customers' perspective as a ratio of outputs that customers obtain from a product relative to inputs that customers have to...

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Employee Portals

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Hallbauer, Axel - EconWPA - 2004

Untersuchung zeigt, ergibt sich der Nutzen grundsaetzlich zunaechst aus den Kosten und Benefits als den konkurrierenden Effekten …

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Clubs and the Market: Continuum Economies

Ellickson, Bryan; Grodal, Birgit; Scotchmer, Suzanne; … - EconWPA - 1998

This paper defines a general equilibrium model with exchange and club formation. Agents trade multiple private goods widely in the market, can belong to several clubs, and care about the characteristics of the other members of their clubs. The space of agents is a continuum, but clubs are...

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Analyzing Product Efficiency – A Customer-Oriented Approach

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Staat, Matthias - EconWPA - 2004

from a product relative to inputs (price, running costs) that customers have to deliver in exchange. The efficiency value …

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Productivity and Undesirable Outputs: A Directional Distance Function Approach

Chung, Yangho; Fare, Rolf - EconWPA - 1995

Undesirable outputs are often produced together with desirable outputs. This joint production of good and bad outputs brings about a difficulty for productivity measurement. Here we introduce a directional distance function and use it as a component in a new productivity index. This index, as an...

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'Divergent Equilibrium in a Labor-Managed Economy: A Rejoinder,' (1991). Economic Analysis and Workers' Management, Vol. XXV, No. 2, pp.303-5.

Bogetic, Zeljko - EconWPA - 2005

Reply to professor Vanek's comment on Bogetic's paper in the same issue of the Economic Analysis and Workers' Management.

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Coase Competition and Compensation

Varian, Hal - EconWPA - 1994

I show that the Pigovian solution to a simple externalities problem and a particular Coasian solution can be viewed as competitive equilibria from different initial endowments. I also describe the ``compensation mechanism,'' a mechanism that implements either the Coasian or Pigovian solution as...

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