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Sources of economical growth in the Czech food processing
Cechura, Lukas; Hockmann, Heinrich - In: Prague Economic Papers 19 (2010) 2, pp. 169-182
decomposing TFP into a scale effect, a technical change effect and an efficiency effect for total food processing and its selected … branches. The results suggest that despite more than one decade of transition, serious adjustment problems exist, including … TFP in recent years, and the efficiency effect varies rather strongly. Whereas scale effect and technical change have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199584
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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies
Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Radosevic, Slavo - 2011
This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430867
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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies
Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz E.; Radosevic, Slavo - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2011
This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216305
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Does Competition Improve Performance? Evidence from the Czech Manufacturing Industries
Medvedev, Andrei; Zemplinerová, Alena - In: Prague Economic Papers 2005 (2005) 4, pp. 317-330
The paper investigates both the impact of domestic and import competition on performance of manufacturing industries in the Czech Republic in 1998 - 2002. Using panel data we found a strong increasing non-linear (diminishing) relationship between performance of manufacturing industries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002721
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Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach
Votápková, Jana - 2014
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340639
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Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic
Procházková, Jana; Št̕astná, Lenka - 2011
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. -- Efficiency ; hospitals ; stochastic frontier analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798080
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Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic : conditional efficiency approach
Šťastná, Lenka; Votápková, Jana - 2014
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429922
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Financial Efficiency and the Ownership of Czech Firms
Kočenda, Evžen - 2011
In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm financial efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more … than 400,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm financial efficiency evolves … over time, and how firm financial efficiency is determined by ownership structure. We employ a panel version of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121398
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Financial Efficiency and the Ownership of Czech Firms
Hanousek, Jan - 2011
In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm financial efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more … than 400,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm financial efficiency evolves … over time, and how firm financial efficiency is determined by ownership structure. We employ a panel version of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122351
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Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional Efficiency Approach
Stastna, Lenka Stastna (Gregorova); Votapkova … - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2014
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables. E …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078523