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Sustainability of farms of natural persons in Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2017

The issue of adequate assessment of socio-economic and ecological sustainability of divers agricultural holdings is among most topical academic and practical problems. It is particularly important for smallholder farms accounting for the majority of all farms in the globe. In Bulgaria...

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Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization: An Introduction

Marini, Marco A.; Corchon, Luis - 2016

We introduce here the volume Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, by L. C. Corchón and M. A. Marini (ed.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenam, UK and Northampton, MA, by describing its main aim and its basic structure.

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Some Efficiency Aspects of Monopolistic Competition: Innovation, Variety and Transaction costs

Todorova, Tamara - 2021

We stress some efficiency aspects of monopolistic competition justifying it on account of its tendency to innovate and the questionable excess capacity paradigm. Some further efficiency aspects revealed are product variety and transaction cost savings. We view the monopolistically competitive...

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Inequality of earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Estudio sobre la competitividad de la industria azucarera en Mexico

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Oviedo-Pacheco, Mariana - 2013

In this paper, we study various key structural features of sugarcane production and sugar mills in Mexico. Regarding the production of sugarcane: (a) we document a U-shaped relationship between the size of sugarcane cultivation plots and their yield, and show suggestive evidence that this...

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Does Intermunicipal Cooperation Increase Efficiency? Evidence from the Hessian Wastewater Sector

Blaeschke, Frédéric; Haug, Peter - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The organizational arrangements, including self-provision, joint pro-vision or contracting, affect politicians' and bureaucrats' incentives as well as internal transaction costs....

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Does ownership affect firms' efficiency? Panel data evidence in Italy

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2002

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Economic analysis of price premiums in the presence of non-convexities: Evidence from German electricity markets

Paschmann, Martin Heinrich - 2017

Analyzing price data from sequential German electricity markets, namely the day-ahead and intraday auction, a puzzling but apparently systematic pattern of price premiums can be identified. The price premiums are highly correlated with the underlying demand profile. As there is evidence that...

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The costs of point-of-sale payments in Canada

Kosse, Anneke; Chen, Heng; Felt, Marie-Hélène; … - 2017

This study provides insight into the costs of cash, debit card and credit card payments made at the point of sale in Canada in 2014. For each payment method, it examines the total resource costs, which capture the overall use of resources by society as a whole. Using extensive survey data from...

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Measuring the Influence of Networks on Transaction Costs Using a Non-parametric Regression Technique

Henningsen, Géraldine; Henningsen, Arne; Henning, … - 2013

productivity. We empirically analyse the effect of networks on productivity using a cross-validated local linear non … affect productivity. Large and dense trading networks and dense information networks and household networks have a positive … impact on a farm's productivity. A bootstrapping procedure confirms that this result is statistically significant. …

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