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Efficiency, market structure and performance of the insurance industry in an emerging economy

Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Ohemeng, Williams; Boro, Ernest … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14

This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general … Herfindahl Hirschman Index and the concentration ratio to measure the SCP in addition to computing efficiency as a measure for …

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Voting power derives from the poll distribution: Shedding light on contentious issues of weighted votes and the constitutional treaty

Paterson, Iain - 2006

reject one of these approaches. The unified formulation allows us to develop useful related concepts of efficiency and …

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Quantifying the scope for efficiency defense in merger control : the Werden-Froeb-Index

Goppelsroeder, Marie; Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; … - 2006

This paper introduces the Werden-Froeb Index (WFI) to assist in evaluating merger-specific efficiencies in horizontal mergers. The index measures the weighted average reduction in marginal costs required to restore pre-merger equilibrium prices and quantities after the (full or partial) merger...

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Efficiency Change over Time in a Multisectoral Economic System

Mahlberg, Bernhard - 2012

not satisfied in real economies. Moreover, growth accounting assumes efficiency on factor and commodity markets, and … consequently does not distinguish between efficiency change and technical change. In this paper, we estimate total factor … efficiency change and technical change components. Using input-output tables of the US economy for the period 1977 to 2006, we …

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Improving the Efficiency of the U.S. CPI

Armknecht, Paul - 2006

In this paper some of the practical issues related to improving the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) are discussed. The general problem of choosing an appropriate price index number formula is presented and both the axiomatic and economic theoretic approaches are used to examine the problem. An...

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Measuring Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector

Yu, Kam - 2019

effectiveness and efficiency of our health care system. The objective of this study is to review and critique approaches in … measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of health care production at the sub-sector level.For the market economy, economists … identify three main type of efficiencies, namely, technical efficiency, cost efficiency, and allocative efficiency. A measure …

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Profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks : a new index approach

Nahm, Daehoon; Ha Thu Vu - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 45-65

In this paper, we measure and analyse profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks using a newly developed …, and to some degree technical efficiency change, whereas scale efficiency change contributes adversely to productivity … growth. We also investigate the effects of the capital-adequacy and deposit-taking regulations on profit efficiency, and find …

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Quantifying the Scope for Efficiency Defense in Merger Control : The Werden-Froeb-Index

Schinkel, Maarten Pieter; Goppelsroeder, Marie; … - 2011

In both US and EU merger control, merger-specific efficiencies are recognized as a possible defense for horizontal mergers that raise competition concerns. We introduce the Werden-Froeb-index (WFI) to assist in evaluating these efficiencies. The index measures the weighted average reduction in...

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Voting Power Derives from the Poll Distribution. Shedding Light on Contentious Issues of Weighted Votes and the Constitutional Treaty

Paterson, Iain - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2006

reject one of these approaches. The unified formulation allows us to develop useful related concepts of efficiency and …

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On Calculation of the Extended Gini Coefficient.

Chotikapanich, D.; Griffiths, W. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

. In a Monte Carlo experiment designed to assess the relative bias and efficiency of the two estimators, we find that, when …

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