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The Economic (in)Efficiency of Devolution
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2004The recent devolutionary trend across the world has been in part fuelled by claims of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ associated with the decentralization of authority and resources. The capacity of devolved administrations with greater autonomous powers to tailor policies to local preferences, to generate innovation in the provision of policies and ...
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Adala Bwire
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Cogeneration: Efficiencies and Economics
Cogeneration & Distributed Generation Journal, 2002ABSTRACT The magnitude of cogeneration plant efficiency cannot, by itself, prove the plant's feasibility. The most reliable way to determine the feasibility of a cogeneration plant is to compare its performance versus a conventional scheme of generating electric power by a utility and obtaining thermal energy (steam, hot water) from a boiler.
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On measuring economic efficiency
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990AbstractThis paper considers a system consisting of a production frontier and factor share equations to measure firm‐specific technical efficiency and input‐specific allocative efficiency simulataneously. In estimating the system as a whole, the joint distribution of all errors in the equations is used.
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Trade Unions and Economic Efficiency
The Economic Journal, 1983In this paper, I shall investigate a role for trade unions in increasing economic efficiency. This role is enabling an improvement in the allocation of riskbearing between a firm and its employees. The essential idea is straightforward. If employers and employees are both risk averse, the optimal wage contract will not leave one party bearing all the ...
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2005
Abstract Traditional ideas of justice and morality in the law now face a radical challenge from economists and economically trained lawyers. Every good law school faculty now includes at least one scholar trained in a field called “law & economics” (L&E, for short).1 A novel form of interdisciplinary research has become a ...
George P Fletcher, Steve Sheppard
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Abstract Traditional ideas of justice and morality in the law now face a radical challenge from economists and economically trained lawyers. Every good law school faculty now includes at least one scholar trained in a field called “law & economics” (L&E, for short).1 A novel form of interdisciplinary research has become a ...
George P Fletcher, Steve Sheppard
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Efficiency and Economics in Joint Arthroplasty
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2009• Understand ways in which to build efficient and economic surgical teams to effectively deliver high-quality care in an ever-demanding environment • Understand the economic barriers to providing high-quality care in a financially constrained health-care environment and ways in which to balance cost, implant utilization, and the interests of everyone ...
W Norman, Scott +4 more
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TECHNOLOGY AND RELATIVE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
Oxford Economic Papers, 1978A comparative analysis of farms that have been double-cropped for one year and those that have been double-cropped for two or more years provides information on the effect of farm experience on allocational and technical efficiency. Using basic input and output data from six groupings of farmers, which were arranged in pairs under the categories of ...
Barnum, Howard N, Squire, Lyn
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Mergers, accountants, and economic efficiency
ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, 2013This paper explores some consequences for economic efficiency of creative accounting practices by merging companies. It assumes semi-strong information efficiency in the markets for capital and for corporate control; and/or the use of executive contracts relating pay to accounting profit.
Geoff Meeks, Jaqueline Gay Meeks
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Abstract “Law and economics” builds on economic ideas from Vilfredo Pareto, Nicholas Kaldor, Arthur Pigou, Ronald Coase, Christine Jolls, and others to criticize common-law rules and traditional notions of justice. A century of this conversation led to agreement on three points: Society is better off with “efficient” laws, reflecting ...
George P. Fletcher +2 more
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2009
AbstractThis chapter introduces the ‘dismal science’ of economics to non-economists, and draws trained economists' attention to those parts of their discipline that are most relevant in the context of this book. It argues that the equilibrium point at which demand equals supply offers an attractive theoretical solution to ‘the grand economic problem ...
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AbstractThis chapter introduces the ‘dismal science’ of economics to non-economists, and draws trained economists' attention to those parts of their discipline that are most relevant in the context of this book. It argues that the equilibrium point at which demand equals supply offers an attractive theoretical solution to ‘the grand economic problem ...
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