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Capacity utilisation and profitability: A decomposition of short-run profit efficiency
Coelli, T; Grifell-Tatje, E; Perelman, S - 2002
The principal aim of this paper is to measure the amount by which the profit of a multi-input, multi-output firm deviates from maximum short-run profit, and then to decompose this profit gap into components that are of practical use to managers. In particular, our interest is in the measurement...
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Abhängigkeit in Geschäftsbeziehungen
Iwohn, Andrei - 1997
ökonomischen wie auch nicht-ökonomischen Modelle wird die mikroökonomische Theorie der Insitutionenökonomik, hier insbesondere des … surveying the transaction cost theory.// With alteration of mass production of standardised products into assembly of highly …
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Transaction cost-theory based investigation of the space management in supermarkets
Vogler, Thomas - 2006
Im traditionellen Lebensmittel-Supermarkt stellt die Verkaufsfläche neben dem Personal wohl den wichtigsten Leistungsfaktor dar. Dieser Faktor ist aber mit hohen fixen Kosten belastet. Ein Ziel von Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsunternehmen ist, den Ertrag auf der bestehenden Verkaufsfläche zu...
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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons
Feeny, David - 1995
Published as Feeny, David, "Sub-Optimality and Transaction Costs on the Commons," in Edna Tusak Loehman and D. Marc Kilgour (eds.), Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1998), 124-141. "Much of the literature on the...
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The Missing Link: Collective-Choice Policymaking in Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Child Care Centers
Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999
to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
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Labor markets and labor allocative efficiency among farm households in western Kenya
Kamau, Mercy W.; Burger, Kees; Giller, Ken E.; … - 2009
This paper evaluates how efficiently farm households allocate labor between farm and off-farm activities. It estimates farm and off-farm labor supply functions to determine the factorsthat influence labor allocation. Both the shadow wage and the off-farm wage rate are includedas regressors in...
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF THE PNV UNIT UNAN-LEON USING PRODUCTION FUNCTION STOCHASTIC FRONTIER, 2007-2008
Zuniga Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto - 2009
Presented at: NATIONAL AUTONOMUOS UNIVERSITY OF NICARAGUA, LEONINVESTIGATION VICERECTOR, POSTPGRADUATE AND SOCIAL PROJECTION2th SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS¨THE INVESTIGATION A WAY TO THE KNOWLEGE AND DEVELOPMENT¨17 NOVIEMBRE 2009
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When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Experimental Evidence on Valuation Disparities
Ackert, Lucy; Church, Bryan K.; Dwyer, Gerald P. - 2007
The method of elicitation has an important effect on valuations. We investigate the effect of perspective on decision makers' elicited values. We conduct experimental sessions in which participants act as sellers or buyers, and replicate the disparity between willingness to accept and...
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