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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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Essays in Telecommunications Economics
Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008
the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...
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Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investmentand Use in Enterprise Systems
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Wu, D.J. - 2008
firms that derive value from their initial investment. Theseresults provide an explanation of simultaneity in IT value … successful IT investments initiate a“virtuous cycle” of investment and gain. Our work alsoreveals other important estimation …
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The Impact of CO2 Emission Cuts on Income
Zhao, Xiaobing - 2011
We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...
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A Nonparametric Kernel Representation of the Agricultural Production Function: Implications for Economic Measures of Technology
Livanis, Grigorios T.; Salois, Matthew J.; Moss, Charles B. - 2009
The issue of production function estimation has received recent attention, particularly in agricultural economics with the advent of precision farming. Yet, the evidence to date is far from unanimous on theproper form of the production function. This paper reexamines the use ofthe primal...
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Discussão dos retornos à escala nos contextos das funções de produção e de custo
Alves, Eliseu - 2007
The article deals with the cost function at a mathematical level that only requires knowledge of differentials, but except for that, it keeps rigor at a high level. It only states theorems that require long proofs. The article justifies the existence of the cost function, points out its...
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Productiveness of czech organic farming
Kroupová, Zdeňka - 2012
The paper is focused on the identification of main production differences between Czech organic and conventional farming. The aim of this paper is a quantification of differences in production capability between organic and conventional farming and a quantification of differences in influence of...
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Crop yields in relations to dosage of nitrogen in the soil and economic conditions
Voltr, Václav; Leština, Jan; Froněk, Pavel - 2012
The article is dealing with the relation of the soil value and nitrogen needs as the major intensification factor jointly affecting the quality of the environment. According to the obtained data and knowledge from about 500 surveyed plots, the premises of production function proposals are...
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