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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...
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The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries' production efficiency
Halkos, George E.; Managi, Shunsuke; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-13
This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980 - 2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster occurrences on countries' technological change (swift of the frontier) and...
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An analysis on the factors affecting rice production efficiency in Myanmar
Tun, YuYu; Kang, Hyejung - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 19 (2015) 2, pp. 167-188
The objective of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the current rice production condition in Myanmar through efficiency analysis, especially, to examine the impact of farm mechanization on Myanmar rice production efficiency. For representation of efficiency and the determinants,...
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An intertemporal linear price model with extractions
Guerra, Ana-Isabel; Sancho, Ferrán - 2013
The problem of competitiveness has becoming one of the main concerns of European governments. This is reflected trough out the Europe 2020 Strategy that includes as key priority the promotion of efficient and productive use of inputs. Differently to other "well-behaved" European "neighbours", in...
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … based on the technology group. High technology and low technology firms are estimated separately in order to reveal … technology firms which operate in areas such as chemicals, electricity, and machinery as compared to that of the low technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Fındık, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … based on the technology group. High technology and low technology firms are estimated separately in order to reveal … technology firms which operate in areas such as chemicals, electricity, and machinery as compared to that of the low technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309454
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … based on the technology group. High technology and low technology firms are estimated separately in order to reveal … technology firms which operate in areas such as chemicals, electricity, and machinery as compared to that of the low technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317111
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Corporate efficiency in Europe
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - 2015
Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate … opposite is true when minority shareholders hold a substantial fraction of the firmś equity. In the analysis, we distinguish …
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Recent advances in the panel stochastic frontier models : heterogeneity, endogeneity and dependence
Kumbhakar, Subal; Lai, Hung-Pin - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
following issues: heterogeneity, endogeneity of inputs/output(s), inclusion of determinants of inefficiencies via their …
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Allocative Inefficiency and its Cost : The Case of Spanish Public Hospitals
Rodriguez-Alvarez, Ana; Fernandez-Blanco, Victor; … - 2011
In this paper we present a new empirical model based on an input distance function, from which estimates of allocative inefficiency and its cost can be obtained. The model avoids the Greene problem, which refers to the difficulty in practice of using a cost system to separate economic...
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