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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Cost Efficiency"”.
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Cost efficiency and capital structure in farms and cooperatives
… decisions. Finally, do cooperatives face agency costs? To answer this question, a variable cost model is estimated to examine the indirect costs of leverage. The first essay used data from Kansas farms to determine the effects of the use of debt on cost efficiency. A nonparametric cost efficiency …
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The Effects of Supported Employee Demographics on Individual Cost-Efficiency
… with disabilities did not adversely affect the cost-efficiency of supported employment programs from the taxpayer and societal perspectives.
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Advanced modeling and design optimization for biomedical industry seeking enhanced reliability and cost efficiency
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency
… the importance of measuring university cost efficiency, because market exit and entry – which ensure efficient resource use in the private sector – virtually do not exist (see e.g., Hanushek, 2002). Based on a panel of 70 German public universities over the 1998-2003 period I provide …
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Improved structural, embodied carbon and cost efficiency of single storey industrial buildings using sandwich panels
… Building Regulations aimed at improving energy efficiency have resulted in significant increases in the amount of insulation incorporated into building envelopes. As a consequence, composite (sandwich) panels have become deeper, considerably improving their structural capability in terms of …
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Assessing cost efficiency and economies of scale in the European banking system, a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach
Cost e_x000E_fficiency of banks is a key indicator that provides valuable insight to researchers and policymakers about the functioning of the _x000C_financial intermediation process, as well as, the overall performance of the entire financial system. This thesis focuses on the cost …
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Performance of Zambian Commercial Banks in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence on Cost Efficiency, Competition and Market Power
… Specifically, the thesis addresses the aspect of cost efficiency and the factors that affect inefficiency performance. The study also empirically answers the policy question regarding the banks' exercise of market power and the low degree of competition. Using a richly assembled panel data set …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
Policy mandates and cost constraints, including reduced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement levels, pressure hospitals to balance financial sustainability with delivering high-quality patient care. In response, hospitals are increasingly investing in Artificial Labor (AL) technologies to optimize …
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Benchmarking Community Health Centers; Efficiency: Multivariate Analysis
… Improving healthcare organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an especially pressing need for CHCs' because they carry a disproportionate burden of caring for the uninsured within limited budgets. Prior studies suffer from conceptual and methodological limitations. A longitudinal …
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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector
… of these reforms on wood and paper industry cost, production, and cost efficiency. Unlike previous work, the effects of privatization and deregulation are compared to determine which shock had the most influence on the forest sector. Results show that production decreased, total cost …
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Using Waste Diversion Indicators To Understand The Diversion Efficiency and the Materials Handled Efficiency of Canadian Solid Waste Management Systems
… Diversion Size Indicator, to better measure the efficiency in a waste management system and (ii) use the Diversion Gross Domestic Product ratio, Diversion Expenditure ratio, current expenditure per tonne handled, and North American Industry Classification System Gross Domestic Product Sector 562 …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of activity-based costing for costefficiency in South Africa Retailers
In today’s highly competitive retail landscape, cost efficiency remains a critical determinant of long-term sustainability. Despite significant advancements in cost accounting techniques, many South African retailers still rely on traditional volumebased costing methods that inadequately reflect …
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Approaches to the measurement of efficiency in a dynamic context: with an application to the UK banking sector
… forward two approaches to the measurement of the cost efficiency of firms in which adjustment costs affect the optimal allocation of factor inputs. The two approaches we consider are, first, based o n direct calculation of an efficiency index and, second, the estimation of a parametric model. The …
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Productivity, efficiency and competition of UK depository institutions.
In the thesis, a number of cost characteristics of the UK building society and retail banking sectors are estimated using econometric techniques. The cost characteristics considered broadly fall into the three areas of productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. The study was undertaken with the …
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An empirical analysis of European retail banking integration
… analysis is perfonned on European retail banks' cost efficiency (cost-income ratios and cost efficiency scores), and profitability (return on asset) data. An important contribution of this thesis is the application of methodologies which have not hitherto been employed in this area. First, …
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Floor Vibrations: Girder Effective Moment of Inertia and Cost Study
… seats as the horizontal shear connections, and a cost efficiency analysis comparing composite and non-composite floor systems that meet vibrations design standards, were conducted. The first study was undertaken because over-prediction of girder effective moment of inertia was the suspected cause …
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On Estimation of Efficiencies of Hospitals and Electric Power Plants
… factor productivity (TFP) of hospitals and the efficiency of electrics power plants. In addition, we investigate the effect of some factors that are associated with the variation in efficiency. A translog functional form is estimated using Stochastic Frontier analysis. Then we decompose …
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