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A stepwise efficiency improvement DEA model for airport operations with fixed production factors

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

performance of a Decision Making Unit (DMU) by identifying the most appropriate movement towards the efficiency frontier surface …

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A preference allocation-DFM model in Data Envelopment Analysis : an application to Energy-Environment-Economic efficiency in Japan-

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2012

efficiency of actors (decision making units) is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The existence of many possible efficiency … generalized distance friction function and serves to improve the performance of a Decision Making Unit (DMU) by identifying the … decision maker. Nevertheless, in order to achieve efficiency improvement in Japan fs gEnergy-Environment-Economic h policy at a …

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Macroeconomic modeling of tax policy : a comparison of current methodologies

Auerbach, Alan J.; Grinberg, Itai; Barthold, Thomas A.; … - In: National tax journal 70 (2017) 4, pp. 819-835

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Technology, learning, and long run economic growth in leading and lagging regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...

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Homeownership, unemployment and commuting distances

Kantor, Yuval; Nijkamp, Peter; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010 - Preliminary and incomplete

According to Oswald's hypothesis homeowners experience more problems in finding a new job after becoming unemployed because their moving costs are higher than those of renters. Empirical research has revealed that this effect is counteracted by the job search behavior of unemployed homeowners:...

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Creative capital in production, inefficiency, and inequality : a theoretical analysis

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2016

We analyze inefficiency and inequality associated with the use of creative capital to produce a final good in a regional economy. Specifically, we first study a case in which the individual creative capital units are perfect substitutes in the production of the final good. We show that the...

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants …) local productivity patterns and the immigrants' contribution to them; (ii) the spatial concentration preferences of … concentration and productivity of local human capital. To provide empirical evidence, we compose a cross-sectional database for the …

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