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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299457
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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in … is able to counterbalance the strong position of physicians and to achieve lower costs. … MonopolKrankenversicherung kann die starke Verhandlungsposition der Ärzte ausgleichen und niedrigere Kosten durchsetzen. …
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Strong hysteresis due to age effects
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306485
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Unter welchen Bedingungen fördert die Riester-Förderung? Eine theoretische Analyse unter simultaner Einbeziehung von Kosten- und Steuereffekten
Stahl, Silvana; Stahl, Stefan; Kasch, Philipp - 2012
Vorteilhaftigkeit bezogen sich in der Regel auf Teilaspekte: entweder nur die Kosten- oder nur die Steuereffekte wurden untersucht … geben, wobei Kosten- und Steuereffekte gleichermaßen berücksichtigt werden. Dabei steht nicht die Frage im Vordergrund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319287
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Costs and quality of life in multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study in the USA
Kobelt, Gisela; Berg, Jenny; Atherley, Debbie; … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281343
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The cost of phasing out nuclear power: A quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany
Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527505
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Bank efficiency in transitional countries: Sensitivity to stochastic frontier design
Iršová, Zuzana - 2010
This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the stochastic frontier approach. Using data from five countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we study the sensitivity of the efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a...
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The Effects of Energy Saving on the Costs of Abatement Policies in Finland
Honkatukia, Juha - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011935644
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What determines local governments' technical efficiency? The case of road maintenance
Kalb, Alexander - 2009
In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices using non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299173