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The Role of Foreign Technology Transfer in Improving Environmental Efficiency: Empirical Evidence From China’s High-Tech Industry

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
In recent years, China’s high-tech industry has made remarkable technological progress, but it has also brought serious environmental pollution, which has aroused great concern about its environmental efficiency.
Feng Peng, Xichun Zhang, Shuzhen Zhou
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Dynamic Tobit models

open access: yesEconometrics and Statistics, 2023
Score-driven models provide a solution to the problem of modelling time series when the observations are subject to censoring and location and/or scale may change over time. The method applies to generalized-t and EGB2 distributions, as well as to the normal distribution.
Andew Harvey, Yin Liao
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Analysis of technical efficiency and its determinants among tobacco producers in Uganda: An application of data envelopment analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2022
This study aimed at analyzing technical efficiency and its determinants among tobacco producers in Uganda. To achieve this, primary data were drawn from 200 tobacco farmers using semi-structured questionnaires.
Midamba Dick Chune   +2 more
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To what extend corruption and free-riding behavior affect technical and Water Use efficiencies of small scale irrigated farms.

open access: yesNew Medit, 2021
This paper examines irrigation management within the Tunisian Water Users Association (WUA),in Nadhour public irrigated area (central of Tunisia). The functioning of 14 WUAs was evaluated based on questionnaires and related interviews. The methodology of
Hassen Abdelhafidh   +4 more
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Türkiye’de Özel Sektörde Fazla Mesai: Tobit Modelle İncelenmesi

open access: yesİzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2019
Türkiye’de özel sektörde fazla mesai genel itibariyle, 18 yaşını doldurmuş bireyin yapmış olduğu 45 saati aşan çalışmalardır. Makale, özel sektörde bireysel düzeydeki fazla mesai sürelerini kullanan öncü çalışmalardan biridir.
Mustafa ÜNLÜ   +2 more
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TWO-STAGE DEA ESTIMATION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ESTIMATORS [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2022
Research background: The challenge of resource limitations requires that farmers make judicious use of resources to maximize output and profit levels. This can be achieved through assessment of resource-use efficiency of farmers by estimating the level ...
Benjamin Tetteh ANANG
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Analysing outcome variables with floor effects due to censoring: a simulation study with longitudinal trial data

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2018
Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard to estimate treatment effects. When patients receive effective treatment over time they may reach the limit of a certain measurement scale.
Jos Twisk   +7 more
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Drivers that Impact the Merchants’ Repeat Intention for Group Deal Promotions [PDF]

open access: yesManaging Global Transitions, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the drivers affecting merchant’s intention to repeat group deal offers and use the group buying site as a promotional tool. The research is done based on secondary and primary data collection.
Nina Angelovska   +2 more
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Consumers’ Perception and Willingness to Pay for Cassava Leaves as a Leafy Vegetable in the Ejisu - Juaben Municipality, Ghana

open access: yesAgro Ekonomi, 2022
Cassava leaves, as a leafy vegetable and highly nutritious food, is not a common traded leafy vegetable on the local markets of Ghana. The study assessed consumers’ perception and their willingness to pay (WTP) for cassava leaves as a leafy vegetable in ...
Fred Nimoh, Stephen Prah, Karen Boansi
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Long-memory dynamic Tobit models [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Forecasting, 2006
We introduce a long-memory dynamic Tobit model, defining it as a censored version of a fractionally-integrated Gaussian ARMA model, which may include seasonal components and/or additional regression variables. Parameter estimation for such a model using standard techniques is typically infeasible, since the model is not Markovian, cannot be expressed ...
Brockwell, Anthony, Chan, N. H.
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