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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...
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Corruption, Accountability and Efficiency. An Application to Municipal Solid Waste Services
Abrate, Graziano; Boffa, Federico; Erbetta, Fabrizio; … - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2013
This paper explores the link between accountability, corruption and efficiency in the context of a career concern model … corruption and a low degree of accountabil- ity induce managers to reduce effort levels, thereby contributing to drive down … municipalities. The results of the estimation of a stochastic cost frontier model provide robust evidence that high corruption levels …
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Corruption, Accountability and Efficiency. An Application to Municipal Solid Waste Services
Abrate, Graziano; Boffa, Federico; Erbetta, Fabrizio; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2013
This paper explores the link between accountability, corruption and efficiency in the context of a career concern model … corruption and a low degree of accountability induce managers to reduce effort levels, thereby contributing to drive down … municipalities. The results of the estimation of a stochastic cost frontier model provide robust evidence that high corruption levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826187
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The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries' production efficiency
Halkos, George E.; Managi, Shunsuke; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-13
This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980 - 2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster occurrences on countries' technological change (swift of the frontier) and...
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An analysis on the factors affecting rice production efficiency in Myanmar
Tun, YuYu; Kang, Hyejung - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 19 (2015) 2, pp. 167-188
The objective of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the current rice production condition in Myanmar through efficiency analysis, especially, to examine the impact of farm mechanization on Myanmar rice production efficiency. For representation of efficiency and the determinants,...
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An intertemporal linear price model with extractions
Guerra, Ana-Isabel; Sancho, Ferrán - 2013
The problem of competitiveness has becoming one of the main concerns of European governments. This is reflected trough out the Europe 2020 Strategy that includes as key priority the promotion of efficient and productive use of inputs. Differently to other "well-behaved" European "neighbours", in...
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … based on the technology group. High technology and low technology firms are estimated separately in order to reveal … technology firms which operate in areas such as chemicals, electricity, and machinery as compared to that of the low technology …
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How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 149-153
In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports and disentangle …-level trade and transport cost data and, in order to account for endogeneity, we exploit the exogenous variation in these costs …
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Firm performance in sub-Saharan Africa : what role do electricity shortages play?
Osei-Gyebi, Samuel; Dramani, John Bosco - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-17
Electricity outages affect the performance of firms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through a reduction in production … this, we estimated the joint effect of electricity outage frequency and duration of outages on the performance of firms in … reduce yearly sales of firms in SSA by \114.9. Also, the study revealed that small-size firms in SSA incur \408.894 losses …
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The nexus between public sector corruption and private sector efficiency : evidence from worldwide firm-level data
Kumanayake, Nandika Sanath; Kumara, Ajantha Sisira; … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 27 (2023) 2, pp. 1056-1077
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