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Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...
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Economic efficiency – understood in terms of jurisdictions providing a maximum amount of output for a given level of inputs – is one potential means to evaluate public policies. Various approaches, however, co-exist to measure the (technical) efficiency of organizations. Given that these...
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This study assesses the relative performance of Greek equity funds employing a non-parametric method, specifically Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Using an original sample of cost and operational attributes we explore the effect of each variable on funds' operational efficiency for an...
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We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings...
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The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...
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particular focus on regulated prices and services for the individual EU15 countries, as well as for the EU15 and the euro area … aggregates. We show that services and HICP sub-indices considered being subject to price regulation exhibit larger degrees of … index increases and decreases. With regard to what extent services and regulated prices contribute to the degree of overall …
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model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to … and financial services as showing the largest potential for cross-border trade when market regulations are reduced and …
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75.80% in the economy as a whole, i.e., 2.5 times more than in the OECD area on average. The growth in the services … of the Finnish services sector has not yet reached that of the leading countries. In some services industries, e.g., in …
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Im Kontext des BMBF-geförderten Verbundprojekts INSELpro bieten Prosumer ihre Dienste auf einem Markt der örtlichen Nachbarschaftsdienstleistungen an. Hilfebedürftigen Mitbürgern in einem geografischen Quartierbereich werden über die Dienstleistungsplattform zu ihrer jeweiligen...
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