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This paper is aimed at discussing, within the framework of production microeconomics, the properties of production sets with hidden, non observable management inputs. We assume that the effect of such inputs is to enhance the productivities of factors, and may be described through a...
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En este documento se evalúa el desempeño del sector metalmecánico en Colombia,durante el período 1998-2007, utilizando técnicas de frontera estocástica (SFA)que, a través de la estimación de las desviaciones de una función ideal de costos,permiten medir los niveles de eficiencia...
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This paper offers a brief intuitive explanation of the effect of omitting the form of government might have on the turning point in estimated environmental Kuznets curves. Relevant literature on this subject is then surveyed and a preliminary model of pollution control and public goods provision...
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This paper looks at the interaction between two firms based in different countries, each which faces the export v MNE choice concerning the servicing of the other's home market. Firms also have a choice over investment in a new technology which allows a corporate wide reduction in variable costs...
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This paper presents a method for calculating the variance of the amount of materials produced in a fixed time interval by a contious materials flow production system with N stations in series and M stations in parallel and no interstation buffers.
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After reviewing some of the basic preprocessins techniques for handling safety stocks and multilevel problems, we discusss a variety of aspects arising particularly in small and large bucket (time period) models such as stars-ups, changeovers, minimum batch sizes, choice of one or two set-ups...
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This paper proposes a "Flexible Disequilibrium Model" (FDM) which allows for a flexible specification of technology and of firm-level heterogeneity in technical and allocative efficiency levels. FDM is implemented on a G-5 banking dataset covering the period 1989-1996. Significant scale...
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This paper looks at the interaction between two firms based in different countries, each which faces the export v MNE choice concerning the servicing of the other's home market. Firms also have a choice over investment in a new technology which allows a corporate wide reduction in variable costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621776
productivity only when it is coupled with a high-wage policy. This holds for individual-based performance pay, group …
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This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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