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Eficiencia innovadora en el sector servicios: El caso de Uruguay
Brida, Juan Gabriel; Ladós, Valentina; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 31 (2021), pp. 240-258
This study analyse the technical efficiency in terms of innovation of the firms in the service sector in the Uruguayan economy. Therefore, we use data from the 2010-2012 Innovation Activities Survey of the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII). In a first stage, we estimate the...
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Investigating the efficiency of senior secondary schools: Evidence from schools in the Greek region of Central Macedonia
Sotiriadis, Dimitrios; Menexes, Georgios; Tsamadias, … - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 11 (2018) 2, pp. 36-43
Purpose This study examines the efficiency of Senior Secondary Schools, in the Region of Central Macedonia in Greece, using input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis, with three inputs and two outputs variables. Data concern schools in urban, semi-urban/rural, for the school years 2007-08 (before...
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Permutation-based tests for discontinuities in event studies
Bugni, Federico A.; Li, Jia; Li, Qiyuan - In: Quantitative Economics 14 (2023) 1, pp. 37-70
We propose using a permutation test to detect discontinuities in an underlying economic model at a known cutoff point. Relative to the existing literature, we show that this test is well suited for event studies based on time-series data. The test statistic measures the distance between the...
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Influencia de la regulación regional en la eficiencia en el sector minorista (1999-2012)
Gutiérrez Carmona, Cristina; Berraquero Taravillo, Raquel - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 19 (2015), pp. 101-146
the retail sector enterprises (CNAE-09 4711) in Spain, paying particular attention to the regulation in order to clarify … the way in which this regulation has influenced the performance of the companies because of the legislative changes … period of 0,3%. Concerning determining factors for efficiency, regulation and size show a statistical significant, positive …
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COVID-19 and the efficiency of health systems in Europe
Lupu, Dan; Țigănașu, Ramona - In: Health Economics Review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
Background: This study aims at analyzing the efficiency of the health systems of 31 European countries in treating COVID-19, for the period January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021, by incorporating some factors from a multidimensional perspective. Methods: The methodology used in the research was Data...
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Non-parametric estimation of intraday spot volatility: Disentangling Instantaneous Trend and Seasonality
Vatter, Thibault; Wu, Hau-Tieng; Chavez-Demoulin, Valérie - In: Econometrics 3 (2015) 4, pp. 864-887
We provide a new framework for modeling trends and periodic patterns in high-frequency financial data. Seeking adaptivity to ever-changing market conditions, we enlarge the Fourier flexible form into a richer functional class: both our smooth trend and the seasonality are non-parametrically...
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Jump variation estimation with noisy high frequency financial data via wavelets
Zhang, Xin; Kim, Donggyu; Wang, Yazhen - In: Econometrics 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-26
This paper develops a method to improve the estimation of jump variation using high frequency data with the existence of market microstructure noises. Accurate estimation of jump variation is in high demand, as it is an important component of volatility in finance for portfolio allocation,...
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The impact of COVID-19 on bank efficiency in the Western Balkans: A DEA approach
Čiković, Katerina Fotova; Cvetkoska, Violeta; Keček, … - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 69 (2023) 1, pp. 29-42
This paper aims to assess and compare the relative efficiency of commercial banks in six Western Balkan developing countries (North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), Kosovo1, and Albania), using the leading nonparametric methodology Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for...
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Does Factor Accumulation or Productivity Change Drive Output Growth in the Indian Sugar Industry? An Inter-state Analysis
Arora, Nitin; Kumar, Sunil - In: Contemporary Economics 7 (2013) 2, pp. 85-98
The study endeavors to break down output growth in the Indian sugar industry into the 'perspiration' component that corresponds to factor accumulation and the 'inspiration' component that corresponds to the total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The bootstrapped Malmquist productivity index has...
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Estimating Alternative Technology Sets in Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis: Restriction Tests for Panel and Clustered Data
Neumann, Anne; Nieswand, Maria; Schubert, Torben - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 45 (2016) 1, pp. 35-51
variety of incentive-based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the …-section data. However, the typical oligopolized market structure pertinent to regulation contexts often leads to low numbers of …
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