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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.

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A nonparametric method to estimate a technical change effect on marginal abatement costs of U.S. coal power plants

Mekaroonreung, Maethee; Johnson, Andrew L. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 45-55

The literature usually assumes that technical change reduces marginal abatement cost; however, recent results suggest that precisely the opposite occurs. This paper proposes a nonparametric method to determine the effect of technical change on marginal abatement cost. The method decomposes NOx...

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Growth of factor productivity in the Turkish manufacturing industry at provincial level

Meti-super-˙n Karadağ; Onder, Ozlem; Ertuğrul … - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 2, pp. 213-223

envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two components, namely efficiency change and …

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On the Anatomy of Productivity Growth: A Decomposition of the Fisher Ideal TFP Index

Kuosmanen, Timo; Sipiläinen, Timo - EconWPA - 2004

effects of changes in production technology, technical efficiency, scale efficiency, allocative efficiency, and the market … strength. The three efficiency components further decompose into input- and output-side effects. The proposed decomposition is …

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Capacity Reduction and Productivity: The Case of Fishery

Fox, Kevin J.; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Che, … - Australian National University, Economics and … - 2003

The paper presents the first ex-post analysis of profit and productivity of individual vessels following a vessel or licence buyback in a fishery. Using individual firm-level data for the period 1997-2000, the paper analyzes a "natural experiment" of the effects of a 1997 scheme to reduce...

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A tartós eszközök értékcsökkenési mintájának empirikus becslése

Kaliczka, Nándor - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … LIX (2012) 3, pp. 285-310

A cikk a tartós eszközök gazdasági értékcsökkenésének elméleti hátterét, valamint empirikus megragadásának egy lehetséges módját mutatja be a használt személygépkocsik piacának információi alapján. A tartós eszközök értékcsökkenésére a szerző a bennük...

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Sourcing substitution and related price index biases

Nakamura, Alice O.; Diewert, W. Erwin; Greenlees, John S.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

We define a class of bias problems that arise when purchasers shift their expenditures among sellers charging different prices for units of precisely defined and interchangeable product items that are nevertheless regarded as different for the purposes of price measurement. For...

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Inefficiency

Chambers, Christopher P.; Miller, Alan D. - Department of Economics, University of Haifa

We introduce an ordinal model of efficiency measurement. Our primitive is a notion of efficiency that is comparative …, but not cardinal or absolute. In this framework, we postulate axioms that we believe an ordinal efficiency measure should … satisfy. Primary among these are choice consistency and planning consistency, which guide the measurement of efficiency in a …

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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...

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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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