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The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and … the impact of exogenous factors such as drinking water and sewerage treatment quality on profitability, productivity and … productivity performance of the WaSCs, they have also contributed negatively to their price performance. Overall, after 2000 steady …
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The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and … the impact of exogenous factors such as drinking water and sewerage treatment quality on profitability, productivity and … productivity performance of the WaSCs, they have also contributed negatively to their price performance. Overall, after 2000 steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086082
) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based productivity growth as a function of the productivity growth … potential productivity catch-up of laggard firms and an estimate of how the top performing company improved its productivity … results indicated that significant gains in productivity occurred after 2000, when Ofwat set tighter price cap reviews in …
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) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based productivity growth as a function of the productivity growth … potential productivity catch-up of laggard firms and an estimate of how the top performing company improved its productivity … results indicated that significant gains in productivity occurred after 2000, when Ofwat set tighter price cap reviews in …
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The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study …. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, we compute the drivers of productivity change, such as technical change, returns to … factor productivity levels increased over time at 1.967% and 1.062% per annum, respectively. Technical change, gains in …
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manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and …
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technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …
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We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...
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The conventional view of regulation is that it exists to constrain corporate activity that harms the public. But amid … about the incentives that shape it. Like the market for regulation by government, asset manager regulation is responsive to … financial incentives. In particular, asset managers will only supply regulation if it has a positive impact on their profits …
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the topics examined by this literature—especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation … markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how …
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