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Efficiency and Productivity Changes in the Indian Food Processing Industry: Determinants and Policy Implications
Ali, Jabir; Singh, Surendra P.; Ekanem, Enefiok P. - 2009
This paper analyses efficiency and productivity changes in 12 broad segments of food manufacturing industries during pre and post liberalisation periods, covering a period of two decades, from 1980-1981 to 2001-2002. The nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to compute...
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POLICE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA:CONFIRMATORY ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND DESIG
Goltz, Jeffrey - 2007
To date, police organizations have not been rigorously analyzed by organizational scholars and most analysis of these organizations has been captured through a single construct. The purpose of this study is to develop confirmatory police organizational analysis by validating a multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431102
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Effects of Liberalization and Deregulation in the German Insurance Market
Lucinda Trigo Gamarra - 2008
This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second article. In a third article the development of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466986
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The Determinants of National Innovation Capability - A Cross-Country Innovation Efficiency Analysis
Hung, Wenchi - 2009
Since innovation is playing an important role in the age of knowledge, using innovative resources more efficiently gradually becomes a hot issue at national level. National innovative capacity is the ability of a country to produce and commercialize a flow of innovative technology over the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475819
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Efficiency and Merger Gains in The Danish Forestry Extension Service
Bogetoft, Peter; Strange, Niels; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark - 2001
In Denmark, many small-scale forest owners are affiliated to local district offices of The Danish Forestry Extension Service. Increasing economic pressure has caused a search for more efficiency in the Service, including potential reorganisation. In this paper, the efficiency of the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443910
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EFICIÊNCIAS DE ESCALA, SINERGIA E CONCENTRAÇÃO NO SETOR FRIGORÍFICO DE CARNE BOVINA: UMA APLICAÇÃO UTILIZANDO-SE A METODOLOGIA DEA
Pitelli, Mariusa Momenti; Mendonca, Elvino De Carvalho - 2008
welfare of the society. The methodology was applied for two types of merger: merging enters the two companies with lesser … between an efficient firm and a not efficient one, confirming Farrell and Shapiro (1990) of that economic welfare can be …
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Using DEA models for evaluation of firestation efficiency
Friebelová, Jana; Friebel, Ludvík; Marková, K. - 2012
This article deals with a comparison of 16 fire stations of a factual region of the Czech Republic with the use of a DEA model. The number of actions (output) and the number of employees, the level of fire equipment and the inside area (inputs) were obtained for each of the fires stations using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315786
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Evaluation of regions of the Czech Republic with the DEA method
Friebelová, Jana; Friebel, Ludvík - 2012
This article deals with an evaluation of the regions of the Czech Republic according to selected criteria. The evaluation was realized using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for the periods 2004–2007. Both macroeconomic and demographic indicators were included in the model. Except the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316061
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Essays on monetary economics and central banking
Stinchcombe, Maxwell (contributor); Corbae, Dean (contributor) - 2011
question and to estimate the model.My second chapter revisits the welfare cost of anticipated inflation in an incomplete … percent increase in inflation causes the welfare level go down by 2 percent if people are allowed to substitute time for money …
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The Impact of Liberalizing Labor Mobility in the Pacific Region
Walmsley, Terrie; Ahmed, Syud Amer; Parsons, Christopher - 2005
issue has also been lackluster; despite the large welfare gains that have been demonstrated to result from relatively small … forces of Australia and New Zealand from elsewhere within the Pacific region would raise welfare in both Australia and New … unskilled workers, the loss of scarce skilled workers could lead to significant declines in the welfare of those remaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430418