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Commitment vs. flexibility with costly verification
Halac, Marina; Yared, Pierre - 2016
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Commitment vs. flexibility with costly verification
Halac, Marina; Yared, Pierre - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011860214
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Multicriteria analysis : identifying benefit optimized energy efficiency measures in public buildings
März, Steven; Wagner, Oliver; Bierwirth, Anja; Berlo, Kurt - 2011
The general conditions for local authorities in Germany have changed fundamentally during the last decades. Not only do municipalities compete with each other for employment, prestige and competitive advantages, they also face increasingly higher demands by their citizens, for instance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420155
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Enhancing the innovativeness of local production systems : Polish experiences
Nowakowska, Aleksandra; Sokołowicz, Mariusz E.; … - 2014
for monitoring the situation in this area, which is benchmarking of clusters. The aim of the paper is to present the level … of innovativeness of Polish local production systems, based on the benchmarking results', with the emphasis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499426
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The statistical reconciliation of time series of accounts after a benchmark revision
Chen, Baoline; Di Fonzo, Tommaso; Howells, Thomas F.; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439246
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Business development and the growth of rural SMEs
Freshwater, David; Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; … - 2019
The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132883
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Quality and its impact on efficiency
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2019
The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields of study including production economics, operations research, engineering and business management. In this paper we provide a methodology for identifying latent quality...
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Benchmarking the Lisbon Strategy
Ioannou, Demosthenes; Ferdinandusse, Marien; Lo Duca, Marco - 2008
role of benchmarking as a means of improving the implementation record of structural reforms in the European Union. Against … this background, the paper puts forward a possible avenue for developing a strong form of quantitative benchmarking, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639717
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On the role of international benchmarking of electricity transmission system operators facing significant investment requirements
Brunekreeft, Gert - 2012
requirements, (international) benchmarking is not an adequate tool for the regulation of transmission system operators (TSO …). Errors in the outcomes of benchmarking will likely distort network investment and therefore the costs of doing it wrong are … high. The paper discusses options to reduce the weight of benchmarking in TSO regulation and options that do not rely on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423684
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Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
Morales Sarriera, Javier; Serebrisky, Tomás; … - 2013
We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. We employed a 10-year panel with data on container throughput, port terminal area, berth length, and number of available cranes in 63 ports. The...
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