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While Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been exposed to frequent external shocks in the past, the Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is like no other, representing the largest economic shock experienced globally in decades. The objective of this paper is to...
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Explaining changes in productivity involves explaining changes in output and input quantities. Several economic models can be used for this purpose. This paper considers a model that accounts for weather and output price uncertainty. Changes in productivity are then explained in two steps....
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Background In this paper, we propose a novel model that allows us to understand the effect of hospital readmis- sions on technology and costs. To do this, we consider that hospitals may experience heterogeneous discharges: on the one hand, discharges corresponding to patients who have completed...
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. The results of this research can provide government authorities, port authorities, terminal operators, and investors with …
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Mombasa ports. The study also explores the influence of trade-related externalities on port efficiency, providing a holistic … of port analysis, offering guidance to port management and policymakers in optimizing the efficiency and competitiveness …
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-source pollution is heavily reliant on the provision of adequate port reception facilities on land. However, the coordination between … discharged to port reception facilities. Ship wastes are studied from a European Union (EU) law perspective and the author …
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fixing the port activity boundaries and the spatial perimeter of the firms investigated. Several NUTS (Nomenclature of … a useful comparable labour indicator. Empirical results reveal that each port area presents a combination of the NACE …
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) region, intending to capitalise on economic opportunities through seaborne trade. Examining port performance is essential to … ascertain the PCE impact on port efficiency within the LAC region. Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) was used to determine the … technical efficiency of the 19 major ports within the LAC from 2010 to 2018. The result indicates that, among the four (4) port …
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Comprehensive studies on the impact of market access on port efficiency are scarce, and the problem that market access … Data for measuring port efficiency, and further develops the methodology for panel data and proposes an instrumental … variable extension for dealing with endogenous market access indicators. Second, it advances the empirical port literature by …
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. However, the operation of ports also has certain difficulties and challenges that port operators need to overcome. As such … DEA was employed to measure the efficiency. The findings show that capital, operation expenses, labour, port area, quay … length, depth, revenue, and cargo throughputs are considered as input and output variables in the port efficiency evaluation …
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