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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 …
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Für die optimale Größe betrieblicher Einheiten spielen ihre Skalenerträge eine wesentlicheRolle. Anhand eines Datensatzes, der aus dem Forschungsranking 2005 desCentrums für Hochschulentwicklung abgeleitet ist, werden die Skalenerträge der Forschungbetriebswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche...
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more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to …. Based on the concept of pareto efficiency, it computes an efficiency score where the associated weights of the inputs and … outputs are determined endogenously. The DEA efficiency scores are then used as explanatory variables in panel data …
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on congestion levels and travel costs. Our experimental design isbased on a discrete version of Arnott, de Palma, and … Lindsey’s (1990) bottleneck model wheresubjects have to choose their departure time in order to reach a common destination … delay. In all treatments, congestion occurs and the observed totaltravel costs match the predicted ones. In other words …
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This paper describes the development of congestion charging policy in London. …
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This paper presents and compares three ex ante studies of transport and location effects of alternative road pricing systems concering Stockholm.
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It is investigated whether Euro-area variables can be forecast better based on synthetic time series for the pre-Euro period or by using just data from Germany for the pre-Euro period. Our forecast comparison is based on quarterly data for the period 1970Q1 - 2003Q4 for ten macroeconomic...
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each classification is to determine a balance between aggregation of similar firms and differentiation between industries …
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This paper examines finite parimutuel betting games with asymmetric information, with particular attention to differences between sequential and simultaneous settings, and betweenfully rational and myopic ("price taking") behavior. In the simultaneous parimutuel market,all (symmetric and...
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aggregation. By using the local Whittleestimator, the statistic takes the supremum among combinations of paired aggregatedseries …
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