addition, for commodity tax reforms that do not eliminate or proportionally reduce differential taxation, a simple efficiency …

world. Distance volumes and product characteristics matter. In addition, we find that ports efficiency is an important … determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent … explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime …

Merger control authorities may approve a merger based on a so-called 'efficiency defence'. An important aspect in …

percent a $13 billion increase in shareholder value. The results suggest that debt relief can generate large efficiency gains …

investigates whether the Replicating Tax increases efficiency. In the case in which the RTR can be signed as negative, efficiency … is proven to increase. While this result is one of the first derivations of efficiency gains associated with completing a …

the coercive capacity to enforce such arrangements …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …

In this paper we present a simple, theory-based measure of the variations in aggregate economic efficiency associated … those derived by Lucas (1987). It also suggests that the major postwar recessions involved substantial efficiency costs …

capacity to change their behavior; when transfers go to programs that limit efficiency losses through behavioral requirements …Economists tend to assume that redistributive transfers increase equity but cause a loss in efficiency, the so …-called 'leaky bucket' effect. This paper explores situations where efficiency losses are small or where equity and efficiency might …