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Understanding Australia’s industry-level productivity dynamics: from measurement to econometric estimation
Zheng, Weiquan - 2009
This thesis investigates a range of issues related to the industry-level productivity growth in Australia. It approaches the issues from three different, but related angles. First, it derives the estimates of the industry-level multifactor productivity (MFP) index for the 12 market-sector...
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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry
Alarcon, Silverio - 2005
Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...
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Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers
Tonsor, Glynn T.; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2006
This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish,...
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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills
Thapa, Sridhar - 2007
This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...
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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production
Simpson, R. David - 2001
There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods. Although the conceptual basis for conducting such exercises is straightforward, the data with which to implement them empirically is...
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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective
Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014
This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...
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Different Aspects of the Composition of Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams
Sonderegger, Rolf - 2010
newly founded ventures are started by teams (Ruef, Aldrich, and Carter, 2003). The literature on organizational and team … behavior acknowledges the importance of team composition for business outcomes. The complex interactions among team members … affect the behavior of each individual team member and therefore the performance of the team as a whole (e.g. Williams and O …
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An examination of team reactions to negative performance feedback and their relationship to team performance
Arthur, Winfred (contributor) - 2004
Despite the abundant research regarding individual-level feedback, few studiesexamine team feedback, particularly the … relationship between team feedback reactions andorganizational performance. Through a field study and a lab study, this paper … examines tworeactions to team feedback, specifically blaming and strategizing, and their relationship toteam performance. Study …
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The impact of inequity aversion on relational incentive contracts
Kragl, Jenny - 2009
Diese Dissertation enthält drei Aufsätze zur Theorie der Anreizsetzung bei nicht-verifizierbaren Leistungsmaßen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467139
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Investment Styles, Fees, & Returns Among Individually Managed & Team Managed Mutual Funds
Cehanowicz, Kendal - 2011
determine investment returns. Studies have shown that team managed mutual funds exhibit similar risk adjusted performance to … study provides an examination of team managed and individually managed mutual funds with given investment styles on the … basis of fees and overall returns. This study finds empirical evidence that team management has a significant negative …
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