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Classification of Network Formation Models

Möbert, Jochen - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006

Social network formation models are often compared by their network structures, which satisfy specific equilibrium or welfare properties. Here, we concentrate on welfare criteria and define properties of utility function which are causal for certain network structures. We hope the identification...

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Jefficiency vs. Efficiency in Social Network Models

Möbert, Jochen - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006

The mainly used welfare criterion in the social network literature is Bentham´s utilitarian concept. The shortcomings of this concept are well-known. We compare the outcomes of the utilitarian concept with the Nash social welfare function. By using a Taylor approximation we deduce a formula...

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The Poverty of States: Do State Tax Policies Affect State Labor Productivity?

McPhail, Joseph E.; Orazem, Peter; Singh, Rajesh - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

productivity and by their efficiency at raising revenue relative to lost productivity. …

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Economics and Efficiency of Organic Farming vis-à-vis Conventional Farming in India

Charyulu, D. Kumara; Biswas, Subho - eSocialSciences - 2010

The present paper focuses mainly on the issues like economics and efficiency of organic farming visà- vis conventional … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used for analyzing the efficiency of the farming systems. …

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Education Impact Study: The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia

Postiglione, Gerard - eSocialSciences - 2010

efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education …

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Efficiency of Organic Input Units under NPOF Scheme in India

Charyulu, D. Kumara; Biswas, Subho - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper discusses in detail the vast and rich agricultural knowledge that India has developed since ancient times, and the entire agricultural community trying to find an alternative sustainable farming system, which is ecologically sound, economically and socially acceptable. [Working Paper...

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REGIONAL EFFICIENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN THE NEW EU COUNTRIES: THE ROMANIAN AND BULGARIAN CASE

Roman, Monica - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 4 (2010) 1, pp. 33-53

efficiency of research and development activities is particularly important, since technological progress is one of the core … marginal regions must also close the gap with the more developed regions. This paper analyzes research efficiency at the … show a remarkably high level of research efficiency, whereas some of the larger regions (both from Romania and Bulgaria …

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Analyse praxéologique et approche systémique

Gasparski, Gasparski , Wojciech W. - In: Ethics and Economics 6 (2008) 1, pp. 16-16

. The following topics are discussed in this paper: effectiveness and efficiency of action, work, human action and their …

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Application of the fuzzy sets theory to assessment of the large-scale investment projects

A.I. Shipilina (annsha@ngs.ru; Bespalov, I.A. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 3 (2010)

The paper considers the issues of how to assess the efficiency of the large-scale investment projects. We offer an …

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Efficiency of health care expenditures: assessing the experience of Vologda Oblast

Duganov, M.D.; Shabunova, A.A.; Kalashnikov, K.N. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 3 (2010)

The study analyzes present approaches applied to assess how effective the expenditures for public health care are. We show that the techniques based on nothing but assessment of the resource components have some defects as they fail to allow for social effects. To overcome this shortage, we...

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