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Technical efficiency and equity effects of environmental payments in Ireland
Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel; Martinez Cillero, Maria - 2021
We investigate the relationship between farm level competitiveness and environmental performance using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). We use an Irish panel of farm level financial data for the years 2000-2017 to analyse the link between EU Common Agricultural Policy environmental payments,...
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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 … agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture …Gegenstand dieses Papiers ist die Entwicklung der russischen Landwirtschaft seit Gründung der Russischen Föderation …
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Chinas wirtschaftliche Reformen halfen der Landwirtschaft, die Struktur und dem Umfang der landwirtschaftlichen … technischen Fortschritts und TFP-Wachstums in der chinesischen Landwirtschaft erforderlich. Zentrale Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299369
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600978
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Effect of changes in tax/benefit policies in Austria 1998 - 2005
Fuchs, Michael; Lietz, Christine - 2007
redistributive objectives and in reducing poverty. For the analysis we use the tax/benefit micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291264
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Quantitative Analyse der Auswirkungen wirtschaftspolitischer Massnahmen auf die Einkommensverteilung und das neue magische Viereck in der Schweiz
Hartwig, Jochen - 2004
Macroeconometric policy simulation models allow for an analysis, and, above all, for a quantification of the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285870
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European railway deregulation: the influence of regulatory and environmental conditions on efficiency
Wetzel, Heike - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265179
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269441
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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
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
The study decomposes the sources of Chinese growth by first making a distinction between technological progress and technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a series of reform programmes, such as urbanization, structural change, privatization, liberalization,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284622