economic efficiency and that fighting bribery would be counter-productive. This need not be the case. In a general equilibrium …

the efficiency with which they process cargo have become an ever more important topic. Yet, there exist very little data … that allows one to compare port efficiency measures of any kind across ports and, especially, over time. This paper … provides a new statistical method of uncovering port efficiency measures using U.S. Census data on imports into U.S. ports …

, privatization reduces efficiency by about $5,600 per future household despite improved labor supply incentives … matching actually harms efficiency. However, increasing the progressivity of the remaining traditional system is very effective … at restoring risk sharing, thereby allowing partial privatization to produce efficiency gains of $2,700 per future …

This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. nursing home industry. We test to compare …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …

result in cost savings of $5.7 billion in 2011 and that the gain in economic efficiency from more closely aligning bus fares …

We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using …

to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR … plants, we compute plant-product level marginal cost as an efficiency measure that is not affected by output prices. For … export entrant products, we find efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry …

, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and …