Showing 1 - 10 of 38
The implementation of climate policies is often hindered by a lack of acceptability as well as the lack of long-term vision of stakeholders. Mitigation scenarios exercises allow the debate; however the scenario design process lacks transparency and stakeholders' (and citizens') involvement, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738892
In 2007 Poland and Ukraine were awarded by UEFA to co-host the 2012 European Football Championships. This first "mega-event" to take place in the transition countries is commonly intended to yield large and lasting economic bebefits to the host cities. This point of view is rarely shared by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549138
the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the …-resisting factors as they tend to reduce the efficiency of traditional instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791603
efficiency of the matching technology; generalists exacerbate firms' coordination problems. We then calibrate the model on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008877005
agents affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational asymmetries generate inefficiency. In an environment where principals … principals. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220690
This document proposes a new decomposition of unit labor cost changes (ULC) in terms of efficiency, technical progress … that labor intensive technical change results in positive efficiency changes while capital intensive technical changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663555
Bi-cooperative games were introduced by Bilbao et al. as a generalization of TU cooperative games, in which each player can participate positively, negatively, or not at all. In this paper, we propose a definition of a share of the worth obtained by some players after they decided on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738682
This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … frontier methodology.The econometric results corroborate our proposition: the technical efficiency of urban public transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750357
banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the time for recovering efficiency. Moreover, traditional banking theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750383
efficiency and local uniqueness of the competitive equilibrium hold. On the contrary, for lower values of the share of first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750993