Employee motivation, external orientation and technical efficiency of foreign-financed firms in China: a stochastic frontier analysis [PDF]
By using a stochastic frontier model, we have identified several firm-specific attributes as determinants of technical efficiency in foreign-financed manufacturing firms in southern China.
Aigner +47 more
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The C-terminal portion of the cleaved HT motif is necessary and sufficient to mediate export of proteins from the malaria parasite into its host cell [PDF]
The malaria parasite exports proteins across its plasma membrane and a surrounding parasitophorous vacuole membrane, into its host erythrocyte. Most exported proteins contain a Host Targeting motif (HT motif) that targets them for export. In the parasite
Cryar, Adam +4 more
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Innovation, Exports and Technical Efficiency in Spain [PDF]
This paper analyses the relationship between exports, innovative activities and size and their effect over firms’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions.
M. Ángeles Díaz-Mayans +1 more
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Mind the Gap: The Efficiency Convergence of ASEAN Plus Three Economies
This study aims to examine the performance of technical efficiency convergence (Beta and Sigma convergences) of 10 ASEAN economies as well as other three main partners from East Asia, namely China, South Korea, and Japan for the years of 1990-2021, and ...
Mohammad Zeqi Yasin
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Chemical data assimilation estimates of continental U.S. ozone and nitrogen budgets during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-North America [PDF]
Global ozone analyses, based on assimilation of stratospheric profile and ozone column measurements, and NOy predictions from the Real-time Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) are used to estimate the ozone and NOy budget over the continental United ...
Al-Saadi, J +23 more
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The role of internet in efficiency of Indonesian primary energy export [PDF]
The Internet is widely recognized as an important technology to accelerate export performance. In the case of energy trade, the issue of export efficiency must be achieved for every exporter country, including Indonesia.
Arif Imam Suroso +2 more
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Although organic rice is a niche market in Pakistan, it has exhibited enormous potential for growth in export-oriented production. Since contract farming is the leading promoter of export-oriented organic rice production in Punjab, Pakistan, improving ...
Rabia Mazhar +6 more
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Efficiency and Capacity of Iran’s Cropland Products Exports: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model [PDF]
Iran’s agricultural exports have grown significantly in recent years. Cropland products (HS07) have become the second most important group in Iran’s agricultural exports over the last years. However, few studies have investigated the export potentials of
M. Aminizadeh, M. Rafati
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Export duration and firm markups: evidence from China
Against the backdrop of China’s upgrading of its openness to the outside world, analyzing the impact of export markets on a firm’s markup—an important indicator of a firm’s pricing power and market power—is of great significance for improving the firm’s ...
Wen Yue, Qingxia Lin
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Institutions and Free Trade Agreements as Determinants of Trade Potential of India: a Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model Analysis [PDF]
This study examines how institutions and free trade agreements affect India's actual export and import potential using a panel data set of 40 nations for the years 2000–2022.
Naseer Ul Hassan +2 more
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