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Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis

Growitsch, Christian; Wetzel, Heike - 2006

services on a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production is more efficient we apply an … innovative Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency for integrated production …

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Entrada endógena ineficiente

Peña, Rubio; Angel, Jesús - Departamento de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y … - 2002

[EN] Stewart (1994) presents a model of endogenous entry. In his article Stewart proposes the following topic for future research: "An important feature of the model is that entry would be inefficient from the producers' point of view, and therefore never occurs in equilibrium. But in practice...

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Who Integrates?

Bühler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We examine vertical backward integration in oligopoly. Analysing a standard linear Cournot model, we find that for wide parameter ranges (i) some firms integrate, while others remain separated, and (ii) efficient firms are more likely to integrate vertically. Adopting a reduced-form approach, we...

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Technical change in Developing Countries: A dynamic model of adoption, learning and industry evolution

Raies, asma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

simultaneously the effects on the structure and the average efficiency of the industry and to develop a framework for understanding …

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Conglomerate Firms, Internal Capital Markets, and the Theory of the Firm

Maksimovic, Vojislav; Phillips, Gordon M. - In: Annual Review of Financial Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 225-244

This article reviews the conglomerate literature, with a focus on recent papers that have cast strong doubt on the hypothesis that conglomerate firms destroy value on average when compared to similar stand-alone firms. Recent work has shown that investment decisions by conglomerate firms are...

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Competitiveness of Bulgarian farms

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

and its three criteria (efficiency, adaptability and sustainability), and identifying indicators for assessing the … individual aspects and the overall competitiveness of farms. Next, it analyzes evolution and efficiency of farming organizations …

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Contrats et modes de coordination en agriculture

Bouamra-Mechemache, Zora; Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine; … - Laboratoire Études et Recherches Économiques … - 2014

[paper in French] This article aims at identifying and analyzing coordination and contracting schemes in food supply chains. We provide a literature review related to the contracts between farmers and processing firms. We examine how the development of contracts can be used as an alternative to...

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Environmental Certification and Technical Efficiency: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India

Sahu, Santosh Kumar; Krishnan, Narayanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

international trade. This paper attempts to examine the impact of such certifications on technical efficiency of firms belonging to … the manufacturing sector in India. In analysing the impact of ISO Certification on technical efficiency, this paper uses … data from the CMIE Prowess for the period 2007-2012. In the first step, the paper estimates technical efficiency for the …

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Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis

Growitsch, Christian; Wetzel, Heike - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2006

production and, thus, produce railway services on a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …

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Technological Development and Concentration of Stock Exchanges in Europe.

Schmiedel, H. - 2001

This paper provides an explanation of technical inefficiencies of financial exchanges in Europe as well as an empirical analysis of their existence and extent. A single-stage stochastic cost frontier approach is employed, which generates exchange inefficiency scores based on a unique unbalanced...

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