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Technical efficiency and port competition: Revisiting the Bohai Economic Rim, China

Wang, Grace W. Y.; Gao, Chen - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 5 (2012) 1, pp. 115-130

encouraging for policy makers to move toward the decentralized port governance in China. …The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China's economic growth. For this research, we selected … nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a …

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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016

This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and...

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Technical efficiency, unions and decentralized labor contracts

Devicienti, Francesco; Manello, Alessandro; Vannoni, Davide - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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COVID-19, firm innovation strategy and production efficiency : a stochastic frontier analysis of Caribbean firms

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2023

While Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been exposed to frequent external shocks in the past, the Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is like no other, representing the largest economic shock experienced globally in decades. The objective of this paper is to...

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Total factor productivity, deforestation, and voluntary sustainability standards : evidence from Rwandese coffee farmers

Paz, Bruno; Dalheimer, Bernhard; Wollni, Meike - 2024

Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...

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Energy Efficiency in Swedish Industry – A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Lundgren, Tommy - 2015

This paper estimates firm level energy efficiency and its determinants in 14 sectors of Swedish manufacturing by using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). We derive energy demand frontiers both from cost minimizing and profit maximizing perspectives. To account for firms' heterogeneity, Greene's...

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

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Persistent and Transient Efficiency on the Stochastic Production and Cost Frontiers – An Application to the Motorway Sector

Albalate, Daniel - 2016

This paper implements both stochastic production and cost frontier analyses to estimate the efficiency of toll motorway companies in Spain, the country with the largest number of private concessionaires in this economic sector. Our dataset includes 32 concessionaires with different features for...

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Being numerous does not yield efficiency - Productivity and entry-exit determinants in European business services

Kox, Henk L.M; Leeuwen, George van; van der Wiel, Henry - 2021

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related to scale effects, market structure, and regulatory impacts. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of...

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Estimating the effects of weather and climate change on agricultural productivity

O'Donnell, Christopher John - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-18

Explaining changes in productivity involves explaining changes in output and input quantities. Several economic models can be used for this purpose. This paper considers a model that accounts for weather and output price uncertainty. Changes in productivity are then explained in two steps....

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