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The contributions of technical and allocative efficiency to the economic performance of European railways
Couto, Antonio; Graham, Daniel - In: Portuguese Economic Journal 7 (2008) 2, pp. 125-153
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Aggregation of Directional Distance Functions and Industrial Efficiency
Briec, Walter; Dervaux, Benoit; Leleu, Hervé - In: Journal of Economics 79 (2003) 3, pp. 237-261
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Note---On Making the Illustration Illustrative: A Comment on Banker, Conrad and Strauss
Frank, Richard G. - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 8, pp. 1026-1029
outputs are defined and problems related to aggregation of outputs. Limitations on the ability to interpret results reported …
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Bayesian spatial regression models with closed skew normal correlated errors and missing observations
Karimi, Omid; Mohammadzadeh, Mohsen - In: Statistical Papers 53 (2012) 1, pp. 205-218
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Efficiency of Raising Health Outcomes in the Indian States
J, Prachitha; Shanmugam, K R - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier …
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
frontier in two economies that represent alternative models of implementing market-oriented development policies: the Czech … firms are also contributing to the gap. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms … further from the frontier although foreign firms do exhibit this behavior. The distance of the Russian firms to the efficiency …
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Agreements concerning the employment of foreign black labour in South Africa.
Whiteside, Alan; C, Patel - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
, remittances, tax deduction, administrative aspects of frontier crossing, health insurance, unemployment benefit, irregular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967302
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Industria maquiladora en Mexico.
M, Pedrero Nieto; N, Saavedra - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987
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Estimation and inference in parametric deterministic frontier models
Amsler, Christine; Leonard, Michael; Schmidt, Peter - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 40 (2013) 3, pp. 293-305
In this paper we consider parametric deterministic frontier models. For example, the production frontier may be linear … show that exact (finite sample) inference is possible when the frontier and the distribution of the one-sided error are …
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EXPLAINING ECONOMIC INEFFICIENCY OF NEPALESE RICE FARMS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
Dhungana, Basanta R.; Nuthall, Peter L.; Nartea, Gilbert V. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2000
Efficiency has been proven to be an important managerial tool in improving total factor productivity in agriculture. The four sources of economic inefficiency: allocative, technical, pure technical and scale inefficiency of a sample of seventy-six Nepalese rice farmers were examined using the...
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