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Individual QoS versus aggregate QoS: A loss performance study

Xu, Ying; Guérin, Roch A - 2005

This paper explores the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment where guarantees are only provided at an aggregate level. The focus is on understanding which traffic parameters are responsible for inducing possible deviations and to what...

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Spatial Aggregation and Prediction in the Hedonic Model

Fulcher, Charles Michael - 2003

as to the acceptability of spatial aggregation in hedonic property value models. Both statistical tests and tests based … upon prediction errors are performed in order to identify the circumstances under which aggregation is statistically … importance of specification and functional form as determinants of both the acceptability of aggregation and predictive power …

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Sectoral mark-up dynamics in Spain

Estrada García, Angel; López Salido, J. David - 2005

In this paper we show that value-added mark-ups tend to be pro-cyclical in manufacturing and counter-cyclical in market services. However, at the sectoral level value-added mark-ups may be misinterpreted if intermediate input variations are ignored. This is particularly true in the case of the...

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Unstable Individual Preferences and Stable Aggregate Demand: French Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Farmed and Wild Cod

Alfnes, Frode; Rickertsen, Kyrre - 2009

generated by aggregation ratherthan derived from stable individual preferences. …

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EFICIÊNCIA NA INDÚSTRIA DE MÓVEIS NO BRASIL: O IMPACTO DA ABERTURA COMERCIAL NOS ESTADOS E REGIÕES DO BRASIL.

Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos; Santos, … - 2008

de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), que se baseia em programação matemática. Como insumos foram utilizados pessoal … impact on physics productivity. To achieve that goal, we used the model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is based on …

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ANÁLISE DO DESEMPENHO CONTÁBIL-FINANCEIRO NO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO: APLICANDO DEA AOS DADOS DE AGROINDÚSTRIAS DO ANO DE 2006

Macedo, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva; Almeida, Katia De; … - 2008

(DEA), busca-se identificar o índice de desempenho multicriterial de cada empresa e fazer uma análise de benchmarking que … the brazilian agribusiness industrial segment. By applying a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we sought to identify a …

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Labor Productivity - The Use of Staffing Guides and Other Productivity Methods in U.S. Hotels: A Survey Study

Dougan, James W - 2011

This paper examines the issue of labor productivity in hotels. It elaborates on various measurement methods used by American hoteliers including staffing guides, with a special focus on productivity standards. Advantages of physical, financial and mixed methods such as percentage methods,...

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A Bootstrap-Regression Procedure to Capture Unit Specific Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis

Desli, Evangelia; Ray, Subhash - 2004

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency score obtained for an individual firm is a point estimate without any … resampling directly from the pooled DEA scores, we first regress these scores on a set of explanatory variables not included at … the DEA stage and bootstrap the residuals from this regression. These pseudo-efficiency scores incorporate the systematic …

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Efficiency of New Ethanol Plants in the U.S. North-Central Region

Sesmero, Juan P.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - 2009

envelopment analysis (DEA) and investigatesboth the drivers and implications of inefficiency differentials. In terms of drivers …

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An application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Evaluate Economic Efficiency of Poultry Farms in Bangladesh

Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; … - 2009

This study estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA … DEA approach show that there is substantial technical, allocative and economic inefficiency in poultry production in …

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