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Measuring National Innovation Systems Efficiency – A Review of DEA Approach
Kotsemir, Maxim - 2013
The paper reviews the application of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for measuring the efficiency of national innovation systems (NIS). The paper firstly visualizes the logic of DEA method and briefly summarizes the key advantages and main limitations of the DEA method. Further, this...
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Efficiency-enhancing effects of private and collective enterprises in transitional China
Bischoff, Ivo - 2002
Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in state owned enterprises and the economy as a whole....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511005
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Productivity and Employment in Apac Economies : A Comparison with the EU Using Firm-Level Information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Morgan, Peter J.; Hoang, Minh Duy - 2021
We provide an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asia and Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221433
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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021
This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545925
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Bank Performance, Efficiency and Ownership in Transitition Countries
Bonin, John; Wachtel, Paul; Hasan, Iftekhar - 2007
Using data from 1996 to 2000, we investigate the effects of ownership, especially by a strategic foreign owner, on bank efficiency for eleven transition countries in an unbalanced panel consisting of 225 banks and 856 observations. Applying stochastic frontier estimation procedures, we compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224121
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Small-scale irrigation in the Sahel : adoption trends, profitability, and challenges
Faye, Amy; Braun, Joachim von - 2024
This paper analyzes the current uptake of small-scale irrigation (SSI1), its profitability, and the constraints to its … non-farmer-led SSI (NFSSI) and analyzes labour profitability of SSI. Inverse probability weighing techniques are used to …, FSSI is more common than NFSSI in Niger and Burkina Faso and less common in Mali and Senegal. Profitability analysis at the …
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Profitability of the Australian Beef Industry : A Break-Even Analysis
Arjunan, Kannapiran - 2017
Profitability of the specialist beef production in the Australian Beef Industry is undertaken using a break-even model … profitability. Although the findings provide a view of financial profitability of the specialist beef production in general, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955065
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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited
Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413090
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782148
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078029