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Exchange rate volatility has been identified as one of the drivers of export diversification. Previous studies have assumed a symmetric relationship between the two variables. However, because volatility could be positive or negative and economic agents react to these changes differently, recent...
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This paper evaluates product efficiency in the Spanish automobile market. We use non parametric frontier techniques in order to estimate product efficiency scores for each model. These scores reflect the minimum price for which each car could be sold, given the bundle of tangible features it...
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Results of assessments of total labor factor productivity TFP showed improvements where it recorded higher rate of 73 …
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Cotton is one of the most important sector for developing countries, especially in Pakistan. In this paper the linear model based on data of 2004 to 2006 cotton yield is developed to maximize the cotton production of Pakistan. In this model variables are allowed to randomly vary with in interval...
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This paper evaluates the performance of the metalworking sector in Colombia, between 1998 and 2007, using stochastic frontier techniques (SFA), which, through the estimation of the deviations from an ideal function of costs, measure levels economic efficiency of various production units. The...
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Forest fuel defined as branches and tops (GROT) of harvested trees represents a large share of forest biomass and is increasingly viewed as a potential energy source. This study assesses the economic potentials of forest bioenergy production in Swedish forests, using a network data envelopment...
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The measurement of corporate performance is central to strategic management research. A common objective of this research is to identify top performers in an industry and their sources of competitive advantage. Despite this focus on best firms and practices, most researchers utilize statistical...
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different production technologies, this article … develops a difference-based profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator. Adopting the proposed model, we empirically … measure the profit inefficiency and examine the profit productivity convergence for samples banks consisting of 31 Taiwanese …
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