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Mean and Bold? On Separating Merger Economies from Structural Efficiency Gains in the Drinking Water Sector

De Witte, K. - 2007

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

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Regional and Ownership Drivers of Bank Efficiency

Zelenyuk, Natalya - 2017

suffered from significant inefficiencies. In this work, we estimate the intermediation-type efficiency of individual banks, and …

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Inefficiency of Modified VaR and ES

Martin, Doug - 2015

Modified Value-at-Risk (mVaR) and Modified Expected Shortfall (mES) are risk estimators that can be calculated without modelling the distribution of asset returns. These modified estimators use skewness and kurtosis corrections to normal distribution parametric VaR and ES formulas to reduce bias...

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Quality and its impact on efficiency

Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2019

The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields …

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Empirical efficiency measurement in higher education : an overview

D'Elía, Vanesa Valeria; Ferro, Gustavo - 2019

This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders. …

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Robust Non-Parametric Quantile Estimation of Efficiency and Productivity Change in U.S. Commercial Banking, 1985-2004

Wheelock, David C.; Wilson, Paul W. - 2007

in the efficiency and productivity of U.S. banks between 1985 and 2004. We find that larger banks experienced larger … efficiency and productivity gains than small banks, consistent with the presumption that recent changes in regulation and …

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Empirical Efficiency Measurement in Higher Education : An Overview

D'Elia, Vanesa Valeria; Ferro, Gustavo - 2020

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The limits of social democracy? Tax and spend under labour, 1974 - 79

Clark, Tom - 2001

In 1974 Britain elected a Labour government pledged to expand public spending significantly. Labour followed its programme for two years, but after that began to cut both government spending and taxation, anticipating the post-1979 Conservative agenda. This paper examines the history of this...

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Triste Aussichten nach der Wahl: Haushaltskonsolidierung erfordert Ausgabenkürzungen und Steuererhöhungen

Bach, Stefan; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 37, pp. 624-633

Nach der Bundestagswahl schlägt die Stunde der finanzpolitischen Wahrheit. Wer auch immer die nächste Bundesregierung stellt: Der Kassensturz nach der Wahl wird zeigen, dass kaum noch finanzpolitischer Handlungsspielraum besteht. Die öffentlichen Haushalte haben sich im Zuge der Rezession...

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Bargaining over a New Welfare State

Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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