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Is the post-reform growth of the Indian manufacturing sector efficiency driven? Empirical evidence from plant-level data

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 21 (2010) 2, pp. 219-232

It is generally believed that the structural reforms that were introduced in India following the macro-economic crisis of 1991 ushered in competition and forced companies to become more efficient. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an outcome of more efficient use of resources or greater...

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Fields of Training, Plant Characteristics and the Gender Wage Gap in Entry Wages Among Skilled Workers - Evidence from German Administrative Data

Braakmann, Nils - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 230 (2010) 1, pp. 27-41

from standard decomposition techniques show that up to 92% of an initial 14% earnings disadvantage for women in the first …

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Monitoring energy efficiency trends in European industry: Which top-down method should be used?

Cahill, Caiman J.; Ó Gallachóir, Brian P. - In: Energy Policy 38 (2010) 11, pp. 6910-6918

Several index decomposition methods are commonly employed to provide a top-down view of energy consumption trends in … difficult to compare ODEX directly to decomposition approaches. This paper presents a new decomposition method called VALDEX …, based on the existing ODEX methodology, but using value added data. Extending ODEX to a full decomposition method allows …

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Temporal and ethnic decompositions of homeownership rates: Synthetic cohorts across five censuses

Coulson, N. Edward; Dalton, Maurice - In: Journal of Housing Economics 19 (2010) 3, pp. 155-166

We perform probit-based Oaxaca-Fairlie decompositions of the change in ownership rates for four ethnic groups and three age groups over five censuses, and then construct second-order decompositions of the white/non-white differentials. There is substantial heterogeneity in how Hispanic, Asian...

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Decomposing fundamental and non-fundamental volatility in GCC stock markets

Onour, Ibrahim A. - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 3 (2010) 1, pp. 1-12

Given the change in oil price reflects change in observable economic fundamentals of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) economies, in this paper non-parametric co-integration and variance bound tests are employed to decompose volatility into fundamental and non-fundamental components. Findings of...

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American option pricing under stochastic volatility: an efficient numerical approach

AitSahlia, Farid; Goswami, Manisha; Guha, Suchandan - In: Computational Management Science 7 (2010) 2, pp. 171-187

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Global manufacturing SO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions: does trade matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole; Melo, Jaime - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 145 (2010) 4, pp. 713-729

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Solving Stochastic Transportation Network Protection Problems Using the Progressive Hedging-based Method

Fan, Yueyue; Liu, Changzheng - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 10 (2010) 2, pp. 193-208

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Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector

Witte, Kristof; Saal, David - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 37 (2010) 3, pp. 219-242

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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996–2002: evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - In: Empirica 37 (2010) 2, pp. 105-125

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