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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Allocative Efficiency"”.
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… 1976). This study compares technical and allocative efficiencies of 149 smallholders who have on average 3.0 hectare holdings selected from three Felda land settlement schemes, with 185 unassisted independent rubber smallholders with farms of approximately 1.0 hectare, in Melaka, Malaysia. …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… 1976). This study compares technical and allocative efficiencies of 149 smallholders who have on average 3.0 hectare holdings selected from three Felda land settlement schemes, with 185 unassisted independent rubber smallholders with farms of approximately 1.0 hectare, in Melaka, Malaysia. …
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Market frictions, allocative efficiency and aggregate productivity in the manufacturing sector: evidence from Zimbabwe
… Third, notwithstanding the importance of allocative efficiency in aiding aggregate TFP and the abundant informal sector activities in emerging economies, few studies have analysed misallocation in sub-Saharan Africa. A key reason for the above is the lack of detailed firm and employee …
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ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΡΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ
… OF THIS THESIS ARE: (I) AN EXAMINATION OF THE ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY OF RESOURCES (II) AN EXAMINATION OF THE THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR'S RIABILITY AND (III) AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR. THE ANALYSIS USES CROSS-SECTION DATA DERIVED FROM AN AD HOC SAMPLE …
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Efficiencies of small-scale sugarcane growers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
… to develop strategies to promote agricultural efficiency and productivity. Sugarcane is a traditional crop produced in three provinces in South Africa and it contributes to the livelihoods of many small-scale sugarcane growers operating in the rural set-up. This thesis aimed to evaluate …
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Ownership, efficiency and the modern enterprise : a theoretical perspective
… private ownership is compared on the basis of allocative and productive efficiency. At the outset, it is shown how the traditional advantage of owner-managed private firms over their public counterparts in respect of productive efficiency is weakened by the presence of allocative inefficiency …
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The regulation of trade-based manipulation
… is faced with a trade-off between improving allocative efficiency and limiting costs associated with reduced liquidity. Our model demonstrates this trade-off and outlines possible equilibria.
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Growth, Productivity, Labour Misallocation, and the Paradox of Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa
… discrimination is attributable to a decline in allocative efficiency, not the technical efficiency of firm. This demonstrates that the primary cost was the prevention of workers from sorting into their most productive roles. The final study employs a quasi-experimental research design to examine …
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Three essays in imperfect competition, political economy and international trade
… when special interest lobbying is present? Is allocative efficiency always achieved? We argue that special interest lobbying provides an extra political incentive for a government to attract FDI. We show that compared to the benchmark case when governments maximize national welfare, now (1) an …
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An economic analysis of uniform capitalization of inventory costs under §263A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
… thought the changes would increase the economic efficiency of the tax system. These changes, called uniform capitalization, are analyzed by a mathematical model in this dissertation. The results reverse the conventional wisdom of the Treasury and show that the changes lead to less, not more …
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Factors affecting efficiency of smallholder cotton producers in Zambia
… of Zambia, the study aimed at determining the efficiency of cotton farmers in Zambia. It further aimed at determining socio-economic and farm specific factors that were likely to influence the efficiency in cotton production. Efficiency in this study was considered as productivity at optimal …
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Individual transferable fishery quotas under uncertainty
… and the QQ system are not equivalent in their allocative efficiency. An example shows that the SQ system is potentially better than the QQ system when fishers prefer the latter and the authorities prefer the former. This conclusion has to be modified if risk-neutral traders participate in the …
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Economic impact of cardiovascular disease on the South African economy, 1991
… fiscal constraints have led to serious focus on allocative efficiency in the health care sector. Cost effectiveness requires that all disease categories be examined. A costing study is usually the first step in this procedure. This thesis estimates the cost of CVD to the South African economy in …
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Privatization of highway public corporations in Japan
… not have an incentive to improve productive and allocative efficiency. Then, it introduces the cases of denationalization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) and of Autostrade S.p.A., a highway concessionaire in Italy. These cases showed significant improvement of productive efficiency and …
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Essays on financial frictions with an application to the Chinese economy
… guarantees exert a negative impact on the allocative efficiency of resources and thus cause further losses on total factor productivity (TFP) and output during recessions. Quantitative analyses show that partial loan guarantees to SOEs are counterproductive in moderating the reaction of GDP …
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The impact of farm input subsidies on economic efficiency of maize production in Malawi
… input subsidy programme (FISP) on the technical, allocative and economic efficiency and determining factors associated with these efficiencies of 12, 271 smallholder maize farmers from 2010 IHS3 dataset in Malawi. Descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier approach as and a Cobb-Douglas …
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What's on the table : revenue management and the welfare gap In the US airline industry
… industry to investigate and measure its resource allocative efficiency. The past decade has been a difficult one for the US airline industry. On the one hand, airline profits have been highly variable with net losses over the last ten years standing in the tens of billions of dollars. On the other …
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Design and analysis of competitive electricity markets
… price- responsive consumers, we show that market allocative efficiency loss and price markup at the Nash equilibrium are bounded. We demonstrate analogous efficiency bounds in the study of inter-area electricity markets where we exploit scalar-parameterized offers to model budget-constrained price …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… maximizing enterprises, and decreasing scale efficiency due to distortions in mechanism controlling expansion in the iron and steel industry. From the point of view of the enterprises, their technical efficiency might have been improved by efforts to udlize their production factors more …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… maximizing enterprises, and decreasing scale efficiency due to distortions in mechanism controlling expansion in the iron and steel industry. From the point of view of the enterprises, their technical efficiency might have been improved by efforts to udlize their production factors more …
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