Search Results - subject:"Datasets"

Sophisticating business performance management for banks: using data envelopment analysis on business process level

Schaefer, Anne; Burger, Andreas; Moormann, Jürgen - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 3/4, pp. 227-243

Crucial bank inefficiencies are rooted in the bank's production processes. From an operations perspective, the assessment of inefficiencies, especially in highly standardised processes, should lead to better directed action for improvement and hence efficiency enhancement. This paper presents a...

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Historical datasets on Africa and the African Atlantic

Manning, Patrick - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 604-607

existing datasets on Atlantic slave trade, general commerce, national accounts, and demography. …

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Exploring the Determinants of Regional Unemployment Disparities in Small Data Sets

McArthur, David Philip; Encheva, Sylvia; Thorsen, Inge - In: International Regional Science Review 35 (2012) 4, pp. 442-463

While standard economic theory suggests that unemployment should be evenly distributed across space, casual observation of unemployment rates shows that this is not the case. This has led to the development of a substantial literature on the topic. Due to the complexity of the problem, it is not...

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A computer-assisted qualitative data analysis framework for the engineering management domain

Saeedi, Amirali; Doolen, Toni L. - In: International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and … 4 (2012) 1, pp. 1-20

researchers in annotating large datasets. …

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The Severity of the Colombian Conflict: Cross-Country Datasets versus New Micro Data

Restrepo, Jorge; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004

We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed … micro dataset of Restrepo, Spagat and Vargas (2003). We find a general tendency of the big datasets to underestimate the … the construction of more micro datasets that will facilitate detailed studies of conflict intensity and its dynamics. …

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Determining the poolability of individual series in panel datasets

Kapetanios, George - 2003

Panel datasets have been increasingly used in economics to analyse complex economic phenomena. One of the attractions … of panel datasets is the ability to use an extended dataset to obtain information about parameters of interest which are …

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Veranderende Datasets Binnen de Marketing: Puur Zegen of Ook een Bron van Frustratie?

Dekimpe, Dekimpe, M.G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

Rede in verkorte vorm uitgesproken bij de openbare aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Bedrijfskunde, in het bijzonder Marketing Models aan de Faculteit Bedrijfskunde van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op 7 maart 2003

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Firm Data Analysis in Linked Employer-Employees Datasets

Leombruni, Roberto - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2003

In linked employer-employee databases, when the employees are sampled first and then the employers data are attached, the set of firms that enter the sample is biased towards the large dimension. In this paper I discuss two strategies to impute inflating factors to the employers’ records, and...

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Veranderende Datasets Binnen de Marketing: Puur Zegen of Ook een Bron van Frustratie?

Dekimpe, M.G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2003

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The limits of statistical information: How important are GDP revisions in Italy?

Lupi, Claudio; Peracchi, Franco - Dipartimento di Economia, Gestione, Società e … - 2003

The use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a summary measure of the level of economic activity is pervasive in empirical economics, policy analysis and forecasting. This pervasive role of GDP and its nature of "public good" raises obvious problems of timeliness and accuracy of the data. A...

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