economic growth. These contributions are complemented by analyses of methodological problems involved in the measurement …, estimation and aggregation of efficiency indices. …

Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm … characteristics of the specific blockholder as well as on interrelationships with additional blockholders. Contents · Agency Theory …

functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this purpose, it combines theory with empirical evidence …

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice … for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …

legitimate. Due to the strong quantitative approach, this thesis contributes not only to the political theory of liberalism and … Concept of Legitimacy Legitimacy and its Measurement The Determinants of Legitimacy Economic Freedom and Legitimacy Target …The Concept of Legitimacy -- Legitimacy and its Measurement -- The Determinants of Legitimacy -- Economic Freedom and …

on theoretical and empirical research in areas including productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in … with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality … Inequality -- Chapter 4. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch …