that increased competition leads to increases in technical efficiency. In the present paper, this issue is addressed …. Possible sources of efficiency gains including scale economies, technological innovations, X-efficiency gains and the removal … of satisficing behavior are considered. It is concluded that although ideas such as X-efficiency and satisficing suggest …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … productivity change is measured by theMalmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On average … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises …

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … efficiency. Analyzing the determinants of labor productivity in Russia the results suggest a strong positive influence of … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development …

fully dynamic model class overlapping generations of Fehr (1999) enabling a decomposition of welfare effects into efficiency … the Thai base case data of the year 2000 suggest that the tax reform generate moderate long-term efficiency gains. While …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … ownership type on the production of quality of care and efficiency from a theoretical (Chapter 2) and empirical perspective …, untersucht: i) die Qualität, ii) die Effizienz, und iii) die Trägerschaft.i) Die Qualität ist das wichtigste Produkt des …

The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …-2004 is used. The technical efficiency of the firms is estimated using distribution free assumption and then it is relates to … for another 25 percent and the headquarter's location explains ten percent of the variation in efficiency. Most other firm …