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Scheffel, Juliane - 2011

gain from temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. Flexitime arrangements allow mothers to spend 30 … percent more of their disposable time on childcare. The results are generalizable to Germany as a whole. The paper provides … empirical support for the importance of temporal work flexibility on mitigating adverse effects of maternal employment on the …

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Renewable portfolio standards in the USA: experience and compliance with targets

Bespalova, Olga Gennadyevna - 2011

Master of Arts

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The determinants of non-bank financial institution efficiency: A stochastic cost frontier approach

Worthington, Andrew C. - 1998

A two-stage estimation procedure is employed to evaluate non-bank financial institution efficiency. In the first stage, maximum-likelihood estimates of an econometric cost function are obtained for a cross-section of one hundred and fifty Australian credit unions. The results indicate that a...

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Cost efficiency in the Chinese banking sector: a comparison of parametric and non-parametric methodologies

Dong, Yizhe - 2010

Since the open door policy was embarked upon in 1979, China s banking sector has undergone gradual but notable reforms. A key objective of the reforms implemented by the Chinese government is to build an effective, competitive and stable banking system in order to improve its efficiency and...

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Efficiency and productivity analysis in ten Asian banking industries

Shen, Zhi - 2010

Over the last few decades, numerous studies have adopted efficiency and productivity techniques to examine and evaluate the overall performance of banking industries to inform policy effect as well as identify the best practice. The majority of banking efficiency and productivity studies focus...

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Impact of risk on cost and revenue efficiencies

Yeager, Elizabeth Anne - 2011

Doctor of Philosophy

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Pengaruh Harga Jual Trhadap Efisiensi Biaya Pada PT. Perkebunan Nusantara IV

Maharani, Ika Kartika - 2010

The aim of this research is to test that the sales price has effect to the cost efficiency. The independent variable that is use at this research is sales price, and the dependent variable is cost efficiency.The research location is at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara IV which head office is at Letjend....

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Cost efficiency, profitability and firm size of Thai insurance companies

Karim, Mohd. Zaini Abdul; Jhantasana, Chanta - 2005

With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...

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New evidence on the effect of CBOE options listing on the volatility of New York listed stocks

Mazouz, Khelifa - 2007

This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...

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Endogenous mergers under multi-market competition

Kao, Tina; Menezes, Flavio M. - 2009

This paper examines a simple model of strategic interactions among firms that face at least some of the same rivals in two related markets (for goods 1 and 2). It shows that when firms compete in quantity, market prices increase as the degree of multi-market contact increases. However, the...

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