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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449705
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447900
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Eficiencia tecnica en pesquerias multiespecie: una aproximacion primal
Orea, Luis; Pinilla, Antonio Alvarez - 2002
RESUMEN: El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar, desde el punto de vista primal, la eficiencia técnica de una muestra de barcos dedicados a la pesca de merluza en Asturias. Un rasgo característico de esta actividad es la importancia que tienen las capturas de otras especies distintas de la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444104
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Technological Innovation and Efficiency in the Nigerian Maize Sector: Parametric Stochastic and Non-parametic Distance Function Approaches
Aye, Goodness C.; Mungatana, Eric D. - 2010
The current food crisis all over the globe has necessitated alternative policy actions byvarious stakeholders in almost all countries of the world. Consequently, efforts are focusedon increased investment in agricultural research and development. The study evaluatesimpact of technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445189
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Risk premiums and benefit measures for generalized-expected-utility theories
Quiggin, J; Chambers, RG - 1998
Standard tools for the analysis of economic problems involving uncertainty, including risk premiums, certainty equivalents and the notions of absolute and relative risk aversion, are developed without making specific assumptions on functional form beyond the basic requirements of monotonicity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448030
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What about skills? A discussion of the role of skills in the strategic positioning of ports as essential catalysts of trade and economic growth.
Gekara, V - 2010
projected steady economic expansion over the next two decades, with associated trade and port throughput growth, current … discussions about port expansion and the strategic positioning of the ports industry become essential. An important part of this … discussion is the sustainability of skills in key commercial and safety-critical areas of port operations. This paper reports on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481812
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From transocean routes to global networks: a framework for liner companies to build service networks, Journal of Telekommunications and Information Technology, 2008, nr 3
Shi, Xiaoning; Vo?, Stefan
During the previous two decades liner carriers within maritime shipping have broken the barriers from being pure transportation providers towards being logistics service providers. Most of the top 20 liner carriers worldwide hale set up spin-offs providing services from local booking up to 3rd...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482357
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The Determinants of Self-Employed Income in a Regional Economy
Swindall, Devin C.; Willis, David B.; Boys, Kathryn A.; … - 2011
Supporters claim that entrepreneurship is critical to building and sustaining the regional economies of urban and rural areas across the nation. Proponents argue that economic development practices that enhance and support entrepreneurship are essential because they cultivate innovation which,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444355
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New developments in fruit and vegetables consumption in the period 1999-2004 in Denmark - A quantile regression approach
Hansen, Aslak H. - 2008
The development in the consumption of fruit andvegetables in the period 1999-2004 in Denmark wasinvestigated using quantile regression and two previouslyoverlooked problems were identified. First, the change in theten percent quantile samples decreased. This could have beencaused by changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445727
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Forecasting the consumption effect of taxing foods containing saturated fat
Hansen, Aslak H. - 2009
The purpose of the current paper is to explain how one can forecast the effect of an elected tax on saturatedfat on the demand for butter. The tax is to take affect from the first of January 2010 in Denmark. The tax is supposedto affect the consumption of saturated fat and especially high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445972