Search Results - subject:"conditional efficiency"

The importance of R&D subsidies and technological infrastructure for regional innovation performance - A conditional efficiency approach

Broekel, Tom; Schlump, Charlotte - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009

The importance of R&D subsidies for innovation activities is highlighted by numerous firm-level studies. These approaches miss however the systematic regional character of innovation activities and potential firm-spanning effects of this policy measure. The literature on regional innovation...

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Competition and efficiency in the Italian airport system : new insights from a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis

D'Alfonso, Tiziana; Daraio, Cinzia; Nastasi, Alberto - In: Transportation research / E : an international journal 80 (2015), pp. 20-38

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Consolidating the water industry : an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework

Zschille, Michael - In: Journal of productivity analysis 44 (2015) 1, pp. 97-114

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Direct democracy and local government efficiency

Asatryan, Zareh; De Witte, Kristof - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 58-66

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Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Conditional Efficiency Measures: a Data-driven Approach

Badin, Luiza; Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2008

, Florens and Simar, 2002, Daraio and Simar, 2005). This defines conditional efficiency measures where the production set in the …

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Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues

Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold - In: European Journal of Operational Research 237 (2014) 1, pp. 358-369

distance framework, including bandwidth selection and two-stage regression of conditional efficiency scores. Finally, we …

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The effect of human capital on countries’ economic efficiency

Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 127-131

The paper applies time-dependent conditional frontier estimators in order to examine the effect of human capital on countries’ economic efficiency levels. Specifically, time-dependent conditional full and partial efficiency measures are applied to a sample of 123 countries for the period of...

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Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models

Florens, Jean-Pierre; Simar, Léopold; Van Keilegom, Ingrid - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P3, pp. 456-470

Conditional efficiency captures efficiency of firms facing heterogeneous environmental conditions. Traditional …

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Nonparametric measures of returns to scale: an application to German water supply

Zschille, Michael - In: Empirical Economics 47 (2014) 3, pp. 1029-1053

statistical testing procedure for outlier detection. Besides using a standard data envelopment analysis approach, a conditional … efficiency approach is applied to account for the water utilities’ operating environments. The results indicate non …

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Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models

Florens, Jean-Pierre; Simar, Léopold; Van Keilegom, Ingrid - In: Journal of econometrics 178 (2014) 1, pp. 456-470

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