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Technical efficiency and port competition: Revisiting the Bohai Economic Rim, China

Wang, Grace W. Y.; Gao, Chen - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 5 (2012) 1, pp. 115-130

encouraging for policy makers to move toward the decentralized port governance in China. …The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China's economic growth. For this research, we selected … nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a …

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Indirect Effect on Port and Freight Railroad Relations : Some Empirical Evidence for Reciprocal Efficiency

Da Silva, Francisco Gildemir Ferreira - 2021

identified by various research studies, this paper sets out to analyze port-railroad relations of cooperation and coordination in … the Brazilian case and the possible existence of a cross-side effect between port and railroad efficiencies. To that end … to compute efficiencies and their dynamics. There is a discrepancy between the port and railroad databases, so they are …

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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016

This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and...

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Technical efficiency, unions and decentralized labor contracts

Devicienti, Francesco; Manello, Alessandro; Vannoni, Davide - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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COVID-19, firm innovation strategy and production efficiency : a stochastic frontier analysis of Caribbean firms

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2023

While Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been exposed to frequent external shocks in the past, the Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is like no other, representing the largest economic shock experienced globally in decades. The objective of this paper is to...

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Total factor productivity, deforestation, and voluntary sustainability standards : evidence from Rwandese coffee farmers

Paz, Bruno; Dalheimer, Bernhard; Wollni, Meike - 2024

Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...

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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches

Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46

This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of London are grouped into Syndicates in order to undertake insurance liabilities. In this study, the Syndicate is regarded as the counterpart of an insurance company in a regular...

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The hidden cost of investment : the impact of adjustment cost on firm performance measurement and regulation

Nick, Sebastian; Wetzel, Heike - 2014

In this study, we address a major problem in the measurement of firm performance and the regulation of natural monopolies, namely the intertemporal character of long-term investment decisions. In specific, we focus on the impact of adjustment costs of investments on estimates of firms’...

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Drivers of Energy Efficiency in German Manufacturing : A Firm-Level Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2017

Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...

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Energy Efficiency in Swedish Industry A Firm-Level Data Envelopment Analysis

Lundgren, Tommy - 2015

This paper assesses energy efficiency in Swedish industry. Using unique firm-level panel data covering the years 2001-2008, the efficiency estimates are obtained for firms in 14 industrial sectors by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The analysis accounts for multi-output technologies where...

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