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A new indicator of profitableness (DIRR) of the investor and recipient of the investment project is proposed, which is a generalization and development of the concept of internal rate of return (IRR). It is formed in the form of the sum of the cost of the participant's capital and the project's...
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The main purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of country-level governance on business environment and …-level governance at macroeconomic level will be captured by using the following six indicators developed by the World Bank: 1. Voice … is defined as a measure of formal entrepreneurship. In order to capture the extent to which country-level governance does …
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The United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to deliver an improved future for people, planet and profit. However, they have not gained the required traction at the business and project levels. This article explores how engineers rate and use the SDGs at the organisational...
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This study aims to compare the Islamic and conventional banks' efficiency before and after global financial crisis. Furthermore, it also examines factors affecting the efficiency. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this study finds that conventional banks are more efficient than those of...
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We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with corresponding firm-level information on government support. Our cross-country evidence for five EU countries shows that the pandemic led to a significant short-term decline in...
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This paper studies how the Covid-19 pandemic and the extensive job retention support that accompanied it affected productivity in Europe. The focus is on the reallocation channel and productivity-enhancing reallocation of jobs, following Foster et al., 2016. An extensive micro-distributed...
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The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...
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This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...
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