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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128038
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Impact of reforms on plant-level productivity and technical efficiency: evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2008
explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268573
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289958
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019
) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we found that, on average, around 11 percent of the … improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain was higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141151
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Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700947