of their activities and assess their efficiency during the period 1986-2000. Among other results, and controlling for … activities within TH management seems to have slowed down the activity of the TH. The efficiency of TH has improved with a …

efficiency (misallocation) costs of a tax system tend to rise geometrically with the marginal tax rate, a massive reduction in …

appropriate balance between innovation and efficiency. Where a patent holder’s invention uses an interface with adjacent products …

efficiency. We predict that hospital efficiency will increase because the benefit from cost-reducing efforts in terms of number … from the period 1992-2000. Efficiency indicators are estimated by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) with multiple … inputs and outputs. Using a variety of econometric methods, we find that the introduction of ABF has improved efficiency when …

Shephard’s distance functions are widely used instruments for characterizing technology and for estimating efficiency …

manipulation may have on their informational efficiency . We use the concept of manipulation as it arises in the study of … prevent manipulation and therefore improve the informational efficiency of the market . On the other hand, disclosure (less … anonymity) may restrict entry, and therefore produce an efficiency loss. There is, in this sense, a tradeoff between …