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Estimating Vessel Efficiency Using a Bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis Model

Walden, John B. - 2006

Technical efficiency, which measures how well a firm transforms inputs into outputs, gives fishery managers important information concerning the economic status of the fishing fleet and how regulations may be impacting vessel profitability. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), and the stochastic...

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Estimating Technical Efficiency of Academic Departments of a Philippine Higher Education Institution

Gono, Jr. - 2018

The main thrust of this research is to measure the relative technical efficiency of the six (6) colleges of San Pedro College from school year 2004-2014. The technical efficiency of the academic units can be derived based on its ability to produce the optimum number of output (number of research...

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Five Statistical Analyses on Efficiency and Productivity. The Data Envelopment Analysis in Economic History

Behle, Dominic Markus - 2010

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … efficiency. Analyzing the determinants of labor productivity in Russia the results suggest a strong positive influence of … nutrition and education in the 1870s on labor productivity. Political influences proved to be important. When looking at a …

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Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry

Arjomandi, Amir; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - 2011

efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that productivity had positive growth …

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The US Agriculture Greenhouse Emissions and Environmental Performance

Kabata, Tshepelayi - 2011

efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …, the productivity growth is driven by technological change. …

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Micro Gains From Micro Reform

Quiggin, John - 1998

Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...

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Measuring Spillovers from Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment

Iyer, Krishna G.; Rambaldi, Alicia N.; Tang, Kam Ki - 2004

Much of the endogenous growth literature has dwelled on evaluating the spillover effects of trade on growth, but much less efforts have been directed towards tracing and quantifying the spillover effects of foreign investments. This paper, in incorporating the effects of various types of foreign...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic

Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010

Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct … productivity spillovers and absorptive capacity of the firms is analyzed. Finally, the role of the Volkswagen’s investment into the …Der Technologietransfer und die sogenannten technologischen Spillover-Effekte spielen eine große Rolle bei den …

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The impact of trade-related investment measures in developing countries

Zhang, Jian - 2003

As foreign direct investment (FDI) grows rapidly in this highly integrated world, numerous new challenges confront the existing global trading system. Both developed countries and their developing counterparts have been trying to reach harmonious bilateral or multilateral agreements. However,...

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Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate the Performance of Post-Hurricane Electric Power Restoration Activities

Reilly, Allison - 2007

The post-hurricane restoration of electric power is attracting increasing scrutiny as customers' tolerance for even short power interruptions decreases. Currently there are no standards for what constitutes an acceptably fast restoration. This paper introduces the use of data envelopment...

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