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The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firms that were either partly or fully privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two different methods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and...

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Potential of differentiated payment levels based on standard cost approaches: A case study of selected rural development measures in Germany

Offermann, Frank; Nieberg, Hiltrud; Hecht, Judith - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2008

efficiency. Preliminary results show that though overcompensation could be reduced in most cases, savings in budget expenditure …

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ZUR WETTBEWERBSFAHIGKEIT DER OSTDEUTSCHEN LANDWIRTSCHAFT - EINE EFFIZIENZANALYSE LANDWIRTSCHAFTLICHER UNTERNEHMEN SACHSEN-ANHALTS UND DER TSCHECHISCHEN REPUBLIK

Rothe, Andrea; Lissitsa, Alexej - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2005

COMPETITIVE ABILITY OF EAST GERMAN AGRICULTURE Â AN EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF FARMS IN SAXONY-ANHALT AND THE CZECH … REPUBLIC The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

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Achieving the First Best in Sequencing Problems

Mitra, Manipushpak - University of Bonn, Germany - 2000

best we mean that one can find mechanisms that satisfy efficiency of decision, dominant strategy incentive compatibility …

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Efficiency and Productivity Changes of the Italian Agrifood Cooperatives: a Malmquist Index Analysis

BONFIGLIO, Andrea - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2006

The objective of this paper is to analyse efficiency and productivity changes of a sample of Italian agrifood … approach is used to estimate technical and pure efficiency scores. Secondly, DEA-based Malmquist indices are calculated to … the differences existing among the cooperatives in terms of technical efficiency. The main results are as follows. The …

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Unexpected Volatility Shifts and Efficiency of Emerging Stock Market: The Case of Malaysia

Elshareif, Elgilani E.; Hasanov, Akram S.; Tan, Hui-Boon - Business School, University of Nottingham - 2009

impact of unexpected volatility shifts on this small emerging Asian market, in terms of its efficiency and returns, during …-Cumulative-Sum-of-Squares-in-Volatility model (ICSS-EGARCH-M Model), which is one of the new approaches in market efficiency studies. The empirical results indicate …

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Banks' Types of Ownership and Efficiency: Evidence from Indonesia

Parinduri, Rasyad A.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - Business School, University of Nottingham - 2009

We examine the relationship between banks' types of ownership and banks' efficiency using Greene's "true" panel data …

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Income tax, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital in a two-sector economy

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper studies a two-sector economy with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor markets. Workers and firms endogenously select the sector they are active in, and choose the amount of their investments. To enter the high-skill sector, workers must pay a fixed cost that...

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Choice-Consistent Resolutions of the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off

Tadenuma, Koichi - Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University - 2007

efficiency-equity trade-off. The equity-first principle states that we should select from equitable allocations if any, but if … because no allocation is equitable, we should select from Pareto efficient allocations. The efficiency-first principle … switches the roles of the equity criterion and the efficiency criterion above. We examine the choice-consistency properties …

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Cost Analysis of Good Practice – a Case Study for Dentistry Services in Romania

Adriana, Dutescu; Gabriela, Ponorîca Andreea; Oana, … - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 11 (2009) 26, pp. 616-623

The vital decisions of the enterprise are connected to knowing the costs, their structure and characteristics. From this perspective, one can say that, by classifying costs, we can rapidly choose those costs that correspond to the specific needs of information. From the good practice spectrum,...

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