efficiency improvements induced by increases in competition cause dramatic changes in total factor productivity. The paper shows … capital stock is gradually rebuilt, improvements in efficiency will guarantee an output level higher than before the start of …

above average. The software industry is a young and dynamically growing one everywhere, and Poland is no exception …. Companies in the industry tend to be young and very small. In Poland, they are very focused on the domestic market and play the …

This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge …&D) intensively. We place KIE in Poland in the larger institutional context, outlining the key features of the country's National …-based economy development in Poland. We observe significant progress due to Polish access to the European Union. The frequency with …

This paper analyses the impact of vertical grants on local public sector efficiency. First, we develop a theoretical … reduce efficiency if voters do not misinterpret the amount of vertical grants the local bureaucrats receive. If voters suffer … from fiscal illusion, i.e. overestimate the amount of grants, our model yields an ambiguous effect of grants on efficiency …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu … der durchschnittlichen Effizienz im Vergleich von 1993 zu 2000. Bei der Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren auf die … technische Effizienz hat die Wahl der Rechtsform keinen Einfluss. Hingegen beeinflussen Betriebsgröße und Spezialisierung die …

global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …

Analysis (DEA). In particular, it estimates the efficiency of 78 SUCs based on available input data (i.e., expenditure data … results indicate that majority of the SUCs have efficiency score less than 1 and thus, they are considered inefficient. In …

consumers both acquire numerous goods that increase their efficiency. This leads to positive feedback loops which can be … interpreted as growth imperatives. For firms, increases of efficiency are accepted since long as a main motive for investments … terms, 'efficiency consumption' is introduced theoretically as a means for securing an income (consumer investment). It is …