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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? The importance of industry, location, R&D, and size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324257
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Small is beautiful: deutsche Chemieunternehmen schrumpfen sich produktiv
Badunenko, Oleg - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 32, pp. 542-545
In der deutschen Chemieindustrie ging die Zahl der Beschäftigten von 1992 bis 2004 deutlich zurück, und die durchschnittliche Unternehmensgröße sank von 824 auf 433 Beschäftigte. Die Triebfeder dieser Entwicklung war weniger die Beseitigung technischer oder organisatorischer Ineffizienzen....
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Study of the firms size effect on their efficiency based on DEA approach
Razmi, Mohammad Javad; Hosseini, Sayyed Mohammad Sayyed; … - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2014)
Investors and creditors expect that the performance of the firms, which they invested in them, proceed according to their expected conditions and their performance evaluation of the firms based on their type and size. Because of owners and shareholders multiplicity, direct monitoring on firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385725
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Study of the Firms Size Effect on Their Efficiency Based on DEA Approach
Razmi, Mohammad Javad - 2014
Investors and creditors expect that the performance of the firms, which they invested in them, proceed according to their expected conditions and their performance evaluation of the firms based on their type and size. Because of owners and shareholders multiplicity, direct monitoring on firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049183
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A nonparametric analysis of competitiveness efficiency : the relevance of firm size and the configuration of competitive pillars
Lafuente, Esteban; Leiva, Juan Carlos; Moreno-Gómez, Jorge - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 23 (2020) 3, pp. 203-216
This study employs a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with a single constant input to analyze the competitiveness performance of a unique sample of 103 knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) firms from Hungary, Spain, Colombia, and Costa Rica for the year 2017. Also, we assess how the...
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Effects of inefficiency on marginal costs, degree of economies of scale and technical change : a theoretical relationship
Díaz-Hernández, Juan José; Martínez-Budría, Eduardo; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 29 (2020), pp. 190-207
In this paper, a theoretical relationship is obtained to measure the effect that inefficiency has on marginal costs, degree of economies of scale and technical change. It is shown that when the relationship between inefficiency and output level is ignored, the estimation of marginal costs and...
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Threshold effects of technological regimes for the stochastic frontier model
Chen, Ku-Hsieh; Ghosh, Soumendra N. - In: The journal of developing areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 223-253
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Technical efficiency and productivity growth of crude palm oil : variation across years, locations, and firm sizes in Indonesia
Islamiya, Haura Azzahra Tarbiyah; Sari, Dyah Wulan; … - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 12, pp. 1-13
producer and exporter. Therefore, maintaining productivity in the CPO industry is crucial to ensure that the global demand is … met. This study aims to examine Indonesian CPO productivity and its components using total factor productivity growth … sizes. The first two analyses imply that, on average, the CPO industry's productivity declines annually, with firms in 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499853
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Next stop: restructuring? A nonparametric efficiency analysis of German public transport companies
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Cullmann, Astrid - 2008
In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the robustness of our estimates and to test the hypothesis of...
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