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Technical efficiency decomposed - The case of Ugandan referral hospitals
Mulumba, Zungu Mathias; Nalubanga, Lindah; Nankanja, … - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 4, pp. 117-146
and decompose long-run technical efficiency into short-term technical efficiency, scale efficiency and congestion … other study have investigated existence of congestion. In that respect our research contributes to the existing research … was input congestion. Implication of the reserachWe recommend that inefficient hospitals should use efficient hospitals as …
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The optimal size of German cities: An efficiency analysis perspective
Hitzschke, Stephan - 2011
This work investigates the interrelation between production efficiency and population size of German cities. The productive efficiency in this context is the scale efficiency, which is a result of positive and negative agglomeration externalities. The investigation is performed in a two-stage...
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Next stop: restructuring? A nonparametric efficiency analysis of German public transport companies
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Cullmann, Astrid - 2008
In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the robustness of our estimates and to test the hypothesis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324265
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From transition to competition: dynamic efficiency analysis of Polish electricity distribution companies
Cullmann, Astrid; von Hirschhausen, Christian R. - 2007
In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of firms. We study 32 Polish electricity distribution companies between 1997-2002, by applying common benchmarking methods to the panel: the nonparametric data envelopment analysis...
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Growth, Congestion of Public Goods, and Second-Best Optimal Policy
Piras, Romano - 2004
relationship between congestion and the optimal second-best policy, on the one hand, and congestion and the long run growth rate …
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On the Public Provision of the Performing Arts
Traub, Stefan; Missong, Martin - 2003
In this paper, we present a model in which the performing arts are modelled as congestible public goods. In accordance with empirical evidence, the production of seat capacity is assumed to be subject to fixed costs. We estimate the parameters of the model's demand and cost functions using...
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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
authority in terms of population is obtained where the increase in proprietary risks due to congestion meets the decrease in …
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Product Differentiation on Roads: Second-Best Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneity under Public and Private Ownership
Verhoef, Erik T.; Small, Kenneth A. - 1999
We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...
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Inside the Queue
Verhoef, Erik T. - 2002
, based on car-following theory. The model integrates twoarchetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature …: 'static flow congestion',originating in the works of Pigou, and 'dynamic bottleneck congestion', pioneered byVickrey. Because …This paper develops a continuous-time -continuous-place economic model of road trafficcongestion with a bottleneck …
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Congestion and Residential Moving Behaviour
Larsen, Morten Marott; Pilegaard, Ninette; van Ommeren, Jos - 2004
In this paper we study how congestion and residential movingbehaviour are interrelated using a two-region job search …. This choice affects the external costs ofcommuting due to congestion. The welfare maximizing road tax is derived ….We demonstrate that road pricing may not only reduce congestion but alsoincrease total residential moving costs in the economy. One …
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