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Admissible clustering of aggregator components: a necessary and sufficient stochastic semi-nonparametric test for weak separability

Barnett, William A.; de Peretti, Philippe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In aggregation theory, the admissibility condition for clustering together components to be aggregated is blockwise … thereby of central importance in aggregation and index number theory and in econometrics, prior attempts to produce …

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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

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Ethanol and Meat in the U.S.: A Multi-Market Analysis

Bhattacharya, Suparna; Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Mark, Darrell R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Since corn is the primary feedstock used for producing ethanol in the U.S., and ethanol production yields byproducts that can be fed to livestock in combination with corn, addressing the effect of ethanol production on meat markets should consider not only demand and supply interdependence...

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Problems of using grouped DMUs for efficiency measurement: Monte Carlo experiments, empirical dimension, and a correction procedure

Brümmer, Bernhard; Thiele, Holger D. - 1999

This paper explores the consequences for parametric and non-parametric efficiency levels and rankings when using grouped instead of individual Decision Making Units (DMU). The bias results due to the differences of the grouped DMUs frontier compared to the individual DMUs frontier. Monte Carlo...

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Implicit Microfoundations for Macroeconomics

Wright, Ian - 2008

A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The 'implicit microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice...

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Implicit Microfoundations for Macroeconomics

Wright, Ian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-19, pp. 1-27

A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The 'implicit microfoundations' approach considers this property of micro-level interactions to more strongly determine macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice...

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Anmerkungen zur Aggregation von Intelligenzquotienten

Frahm, Gabriel; Mittring, Gert - 2007

der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine Methode entwickelt, die eine konsistente Aggregation unterschiedlicher …

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Das Aggregationsproblem bei der Erstellung von Rankings. Einige Anmerkungen am Beispiel der Formel 1 Weltmeisterschaft 1998 / The Problem of Aggregation Arising in the Process of B...

Kladroba, Andreas - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 3, pp. 302-314

besonderes Problem (vor allem wegen seiner zentralen Bedeutung) stellt dabei offensichtlich die Aggregation von Einzelrankings zu … the popularity of rankings there are obvious problems with statistical methods. Especially the aggregation of single … rankings to a common ranking seems to be problematic. Aggregation to a common ranking is as difficult as finding a common …

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Preisindizes mit konstanten Wertgewichten. Bemerkungen zu einem Vorschlag von Werner Neubauer / Two Price Index Formulas Proposed by W. Neubauer

Lippe, Peter von der - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 6, pp. 742-758

Zusammenfassung Zwei von Neubauer ins Gespräch gebrachte Preisindexformeln werden hinsichtlich ihrer Interpretation und Eigenschaften untersucht. Die Formeln sind leider wenig bekannt und wohl auch selten im Detail untersucht worden. Das ist umso bedauerlicher als sie einige sehr vorteilhafte...

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A Further Empirical Investigation of German Firms’ Financial Structure and Ensuing Risks / Finanzierungsstrukturen und Risiken im Unternehmenssektor der Bundesrepublik Deutschland...

Kirchesch, Kai; Sommer, Marc; Stahlecker, Peter - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 5-6, pp. 530-555

Summary The changes in the financial structures of West German industrial enterprises have been investigated in Größl/Stahlecker/Wohlers (2001). The empirical analysis confirmed the hypothesis that small and medium-sized enterprises are confronted with higher - and even rising - financial...

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