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Digital economies and evolving regulations : a parametric and non-parametric approach with bad output across countries
Mishra, Shila; Chauhan, Manish; Mathur, Somesh K. - 2022
We use the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering OECD -DSTRI index as bad output, the study intends to...
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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2017
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2016
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595798
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World Bank Corporate Scorecard April 2013 : Integrated Results and Performance Framework
World Bank - 2013
The corporate scorecard provides information on the Bank's overall performance and the results achieved by its clients … direction for the Bank's work. These high-level outcomes cannot be attributed directly to the Bank, because countries and their … highlights development results that countries have achieved with Bank support. Tier three indicators provide information on the …
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World Bank Corporate Scorecard September 2013 : Integrated Results and Performance Framework
World Bank - 2013
Two ambitious goals guide World Bank Group actions: (i) ending extreme poverty by reducing the percentage of people … burdens future generations will inherit. The World Bank Group is committed to supporting countries in the achievement of these … goals with a combination of financing, knowledge, and convening services. The World Bank Corporate Scorecard provides …
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World Bank Corporate Scorecard 2011 : Integrated Results and Performance Framework
World Bank - 2013
The Corporate Scorecard is designed to provide a snapshot of the Bank???s overall performance, including its business … made and areas that need attention. The World Bank has comprehensive systems??? on which it continuously improves … Association (IDA13) in 2002, the Bank became the first multilateral development institution to use a framework with quantitative …
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A new slacks-based measure of Malmquist-Luenberger index in the presence of undesirable outputs
Arabi, Behrouz; Susila Munisamy; Emrouznejad, Ali - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 51 (2015), pp. 29-37
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On the estimation stability of efficiency and economies of scale in microfinance institutions
Bolli, Thomas; Anh Vo Thi - 2012
This paper uses a panel data set of microfinance institutions (MFI) across the world to compare several identification strategies of cost efficiency and economies of scale. Concretely, we contrast the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and...
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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of London are grouped into Syndicates in order to undertake insurance liabilities. In this study, the Syndicate is regarded as the counterpart of an insurance company in a regular...
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Exploring the Role of Institutions in Cross Country Malmquist Productivity Analysis : A Two-Stage Double Bootstrap DEA Approach
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - 2022
This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity...
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