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Semi-parametric measures of scale characteristics of German natural gas-fired electricity generation
Seifert, Stefan - 2016
Scale characteristics are key properties of production functions that determine optimal firm sizes, and have considerable policy implications for sectors undergoing restructuring. However, estimates of scale characteristics typically vary with the assumptions of the underlying empirical model....
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Measuring productivity when technologies are heterogeneous : a semi-parametric approach for electricity generation
Seifert, Stefan - 2015
While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity growth for a sector characterized by multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392214
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Impact of diversification on technical efficiency of organic farming in Switzerland, Austria and Southern Germany
Lakner, Sebastian; Kirchweger, Stefan; Hoop, Daniel; … - 2015
The paper investigates the impact of subsidies and of para-agriculture on the technical efficiency of organic farms in Switzerland, Austria and Southern Germany. The data-set consists of bookkeeping data with 1,704 observations in the years 2003 to 2005. Technical efficiency is modelled using a...
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The Cost Efficiency of German Banks : A Comparison of Sfa and DEA
Fiorentino, Elisabetta - 2016
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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals
Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - 2003
A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … are not treated as an output but as an input. Second, the usual DEA assumption of a homogeneous sample is tested and … rejected for a large part of the observations. The proposed solution is to restrict DEA to comparable observations in the two …
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The similarities in efficiency of universities and universities of applied sciences in Lower Saxony
Stöver, Britta; Sibbertsen, Philipp - 2020
Due to the advancing economisation and the associated discussion on the distribution of public budgets and tax revenues, the efficiency of higher education institutions is increasingly coming into focus. Since the 2000s, more and more studies on the efficiency of German universities have been...
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The measurement of cost efficiency and ray scale elasticity of German banks with data envelopment analysis
Porembski, Marcus; Alpar, Paul - 2000
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Dynamics of Productivity in Higher Education : Cross-European Evidence Based on Bootstrapped Malmquist Indices
Parteka, Aleksandra - 2012
This study examines patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs) in 7 European countries across the time period 2001–2005. We adopt consistent bootstrap estimation procedures to obtain confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI...
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Dynamics of Productivity in Higher Education - Cross-European Evidence Based on Bootstrapped Malmquist Indices
Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak‐Derlacz, Joanna - 2011
This study presents patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs) from 7 European countries across the time period 2001-2005. We adopt consistent bootstrap estimation procedures to obtain confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179827
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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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