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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...
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Automation, Performance and International Competition: Firm-level Comparisons of Process Innovation
Kromann, Lene; Sørensen, Anders - 2015
productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by … reducing setup time, run time, and inspection time and increasing uptime and quantity produced per worker. The efficiency …
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … efficiency change using a Tobit regression for each industry. The results reveal that TFPG declined for all the sectors during … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …
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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India
Saraswathy, Beena - 2015
Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …
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Does ownership affect firms' efficiency? : panel data evidence in Italy
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2002
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Constructing the FEEM sustainability index : a Choquet-integral application
Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - 2013 - This draft: January, 2013
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
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Developing an underlying inflation gauge for China
Amstad, Marlene; Huan, Ye; Ma, Guonan - 2014
The headline consumer price index (CPI) is often considered too noisy, narrowly defined, and/or slowly available for policymaking. On the other hand, traditional core inflation measures may reduce volatility but do not address other issues and may even exclude important information. This paper...
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Constructing the FEEM sustainability index : a Choquet-integral application
Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - 2012 - This draft: May, 2012
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565838
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Revisiting worst-case DEA for composite indicators
Athanassoglou, Stergios - 2015
Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...
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Energy intensity developments in 40 major economies : structural change or technology improvement?
De Cian, Enrica; Schymura, Michael; Verdolini, Elena; … - 2013
efficiency changes to either changes in technology or changes in the structure of the economy, and (3) highlight sectoral and …
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