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The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier models: A new approach
Manner, Hans; Hafner, Christian; Simar, Leopold - 2015
frontier model often suffers from the empirical artefact that the residuals of the production function may have a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301408
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Do age complementarities affect labour productivity? Evidence from German firm level data
Peters, Cornelius - 2015
the workers a nested production structure is applied. In addition, this allows to analyse the complementarities between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301537
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Productivity in the Electricity Retail Market: Does Ownership Matter? A Structural Production Function Approach for Germany
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
This paper examines firm-level productivity for German electricity retailers using a structural production function … innovative production function for the retail sector using labour and external services as main inputs. Our econometric model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301550
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Productivity Growth and its Sources - A StoNED Metafrontier Analyis of the German Electricity Generating Sector
Seifert, Stefan - 2015
in Germany between 2003 and 2010 allows to estimate production frontiers for coal, lignite, gas and biomass fired power … plants. Production functions are estimated using stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) in a meta …-fired plants in the metafrontier, (2) productivity changes for all technologies and reductions in production potentials (3) a catch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301571
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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity
Serafinelli, Michel - 2015
A consensus has emerged that agglomeration economies are an important factor explaining why firms cluster next to each other. Yet disagreement remains over the sources of these agglomeration effects, given non-trivial measurement challenges. This paper is the first to present direct evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301659
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Voting for Inefficiency
Nieswand, Maria; Baake, Pio; Wagner, Lilo - 2015
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic voter model that rationalizes the ineff cient use of labor input in municipality-owned enterprises. Our focus is on the relationship between absolute as well as relative ineff ciency measures and the size of the municipality in which public rms operate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301664
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Integration brings convergence? The role of public and human capital
Rodriguez, Maria Jesus Delgado; Ayuso, Inmaculada Alvarez - 2004
change (shifts in the European production frontier), technological catch-up (movements toward or away from the frontier) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318800
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Is there a rural-urban divide? Location and productivity of UK manufacturing
Rizov, Marian; Walsh, Paul - 2010
the parameters of production functions at firm level, within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries, for the period 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332306
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Intangible capital and firms productivity
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Pontis, Marco - 2010
Firms competitive strategy in industrialised countries is increasingly based on activities such as the inventions of new processes and products, the improvements of the employees skill, the creation of a reputation for company's products. All these actions are intended to increase firms economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332405
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Social welfare, internal and external economies for integration of public services
Nakamura, Daisuke - 2012
In population declining countries, public services in rural areas face potential problematic issues on the long-run sustainability, which are namely brought by insufficient economies of scale. Since these services play important roles as social infrastructure elements, a disappearance from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340730