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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"allocative inefficiency"”.
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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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Pinpointing production constraints faced by female-headed households in rural Malawi
… price ratios to detect input constraints and allocative inefficiency. Technical efficiency is also compared among headship gender categories. Results indicate that de jure female-headed households are less technically efficient than de facto female- and male-headed households. However, no …
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China's Paper Industry: Growth and Environmental Policy during Economic Reform
… lessening over time can be largely attributed to allocative inefficiency and regional disparity in policy enforcement, as is demonstrated by the second empirical chapter. These results should point future policy in the direction of better enforcement and/or the trial of a tradable permit system.
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Approaches to the measurement of efficiency in a dynamic context: with an application to the UK banking sector
… that in a static model might be interpreted as allocative inefficiency). The empirical analysis in this thesis applies both approaches to estimate efficiency differences between firms, and over time, in the UK retail banking and building society sectors. The parametric model we develop, …
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Essays on Bargaining and Markets
Chapter 1: Inefficiency in a Frictionless Market Gale and Sabourian (2006) discuss the existence of inefficient Markov-perfect equilibrium (MPE) in a heterogeneous market. This paper shows that the example they provide cannot be supported as a MPE. Indeed, with two buyers and two sellers, the …
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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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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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Three Essays in Economic Growth
… (labor). First, I show that the extent of the inefficiency is determined by the relative lobbying power of the firms. The inefficiencies lead to a static welfare loss, which increase in the relative lobbying power of firms seeking to establish barriers. I further show that if the relative …