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Balancing investments in public service personnel and its healthcare provision output : an efficiency analysis for Brazilian municipalities
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …
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Increasing the efficiency of the European institutions: a historical perspective
Popescu, Ionuţ - In: CES working papers 2 (2010) 2, pp. 34-38
The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993345
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Public spending efficiency in the OECD : benchmarking health care, education, and general administration
Dutu, Richard; Sicari, Patrizio - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 20 (2020) 3, pp. 253-280
further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …
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Spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers in the presence of transient and persistent efficiency: evidence from China's provinces
Haini, Hazwan - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21
This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …
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Examining the productivity of the ASEAN economies in the presence of transient and persistent efficiency
Haini, Hazwan - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21
dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking … into account of transient and persistent efficiency. The results show that there is room for efficiency gains, as the ASEAN …
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A Critical Appraisal of Remedies in the EU Microsoft Cases
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009
We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The first EU case alleged (i) that Microsoft illegally bundled the Windows Media Player (WMP) with Windows; and (ii) that Microsoft did not provide adequate documentation that would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621689
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Efficiency of broadband internet adoption in European Union member states
Pavlyuk, Dmitry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper is devoted to econometric analysis of broadband adoption efficiency in EU member states. Stochastic frontier … models are widely used for efficiency estimation. We enhanced the stochastic frontier model by adding a spatial component … broadband adoption efficiency. We confirmed a negative impact of average prices of broadband services on broadband adoption in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325630
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The Role and Efficiency of Internet Banking in Romania
BUHOCIU, Florin Marian; VIRLANUTA, Florina; MOGA, … - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2009) 1, pp. 21-28
The electronic revolution in commerce is strongly affecting the performance of the economies. Banking over the internet has attracted increasing attention over the past several years from bankers and other financial services industry participants and this is due to the rapid and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692291
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Domain knowledge as corporate resource of financial firms
Heng, Michael S.H.; Peters, Steve C.A. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
It is almost a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society and that knowledge is an important resource of firms in their production of goods and provision of services to their clients. However it is not so easy to find many examples showing the use of domain knowledge in financial...
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The Quest for Appropriate Remedies in the Microsoft Antitrust EU Cases: A Comparative Appraisal
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009
The Microsoft cases in the United States and in Europe have been influential in determining the contours of the substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies that were adopted, following the finding of liability,...
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