the finite population mean under a two-phase sampling system. The Bias and Mean Square Error (MSE) of the proposed … exponential regression cum ratio estimator when compared using the cri- teria of bias, mean square error and percentage relative … efficiency. The proposed es- timator can be used to estimate the averages of economic variables such as inflation, exchange rate …

This paper fulfills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing the impact of government efficiency and corruption on … these groups. Obtained findings provide strong evidence that government efficiency has a significant effect on financial …

This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general … Herfindahl Hirschman Index and the concentration ratio to measure the SCP in addition to computing efficiency as a measure for …

convergence rate of the QML estimators has not been formally studied, and methods for correcting finite sample bias of the QML … estimators have not been given. This paper fills in these gaps. Of the two, bias correction is particularly important to the … those for the SLD model in terms of the rate of convergence and the magnitude of bias. Monte Carlo results show that the …

This paper studies an alternative bias correction for the M-estimator, which is obtained by correcting the moment … equations in the spirit of Firth (1993). In particular, this paper compares the stochastic expansions of the analytically-bias …-step bias correction by using the bias correction of moment equations. This finding suggests that the comparison between the one …

-monotonic relationship between pandering incentives and bias. These conflicts counterbalance each other, resulting in a principal’s benefit … from delegation not strictly decreasing with increased bias. Surprisingly, delegation to a biased agent can be advantageous …

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 …