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Produktivität und Effizienz in Banken –Terminologie, Methoden und Status quo
Burger, Andreas - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 10165439-X - 2008
This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures … and outlines key areas of interest inthis context, such as efficiency measures, components of efficiency and the … measuring productivity and efficiency in a non-technical manner. Variousparametric as well as non parametric approaches are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865678
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Frontier Efficiency Methodologies to Measure Performance in the Insurance Industry : Overview and new Empirical Evidence
Eling, Martin; Luhnen, Michael - Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft <Sankt Gallen> - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and new empirical evidence on frontier effi-ciency measurement in … step, we review 87 studies and put them into a joint evalu-ation of efficiency measurement in the field of insurance. In … the second step, a broad efficiency comparison of 3,555 insurers from 34 countries is conducted. Different methodologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861366
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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
reforms on equity and efficiency for thecase of Germany... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861443
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Aid Effectiveness and Limited Enforceable Conditionality
Scholl, Almuth - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005
This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical frameworkwith a conflict of interest between the donor and the recipient government.Aid conditionality is modelled as a limited enforceable contract. We defineconditional aid policy to be self-enforcing if, at any point in time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861873
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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement,Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, andauthorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they havethemselves passed. But if enforcement is imperfect, how effective can a minimum wage be?And if non-compliance is widespread, why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862301
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Wirtschaftswachstum und Effektivität der Industrieunternehmen beim Übergang zu einer Marktwirtschaft in Bulgarien
Todorov, Todor Nenov - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fakultät für … - 2003
Das Wirtschaftswachstum und die wirtschaftliche Effektivität der Produktionsind Kernfragen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft. Ihr Erreichenist objektiv begründet und geht aus den Gesetzen, Prinzipien und Anforderungender Marktwirtschaft hervor. Die Ressourcenknappheit und die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862628
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment:Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-UpProgrammes
Baumgartner, Hans. J.; Caliendo, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduceGermany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low selfemploymentrate. Empirical evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863227
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable?An Empirical Test of Efficiency WagesBased on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863255
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The Distribution and Heterogeneityof Technical Efficiency within Industries : An Empirical Assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Andreas, Stephan - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
Diese Arbeit analysiert die Verteilung von technischer Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes …. Die technische Effizienz wird als fir-menspezifischer fixer Effekt im Rahmen einer deterministischen Frontier … relativ robust hinsichtlich einzelner extremer Werte erweist. Das Ausmaß an Heterogenität von technischer Effi-zienz innerhalb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864349
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What Causes Cross-industry Differencesof Technical Efficiency? – An EmpiricalInvestigation∗
Fritsch, Michael; Andreas, Stephan - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
technical efficiency across industries. Technicalefficiency is estimated by firms’ fixed effects. One striking result is that … the distribution oftechnical efficiency across industries is positively skewed. This is because the efficiencydistribution … technical efficiency differences across industries. Oureconometric analyses provide evidence that capital and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864350