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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a critical role in protecting public health and the environment but are also contributors to carbon emissions. Improving the eco‐efficiency of WWTPs is essential for advancing sustainability in the sector.
Alexandros Maziotis +1 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Declining natural resources, rising production costs, and diminishing returns from input‐intensive practices threaten the sustainability of smallholder rice systems in Bangladesh. Using a primal system approach and survey data from 1869 rice‐producing households, this study evaluates technical and allocative inefficiency across major agro ...
Limon Deb +3 more
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Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 2006 Les auteurs étudient dans cet article la structure de la demande d'énergie du secteur industriel français de 1962 à1982. Le modèle utilisé consiste à estimer l'effet des prix des 4 énergies : pétrole, gaz, électricité et charbon, sur la part de la ...
Le Roux Y., Papee J.
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Scale Versus Technology—M&A Effects by Firm Size and Ex‐Post M&A Time Horizon in Korea
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on technical change (TC) and the scale component (SC)—the two primary constituents of total factor productivity (TFP)—by firm size and ex‐post M&A time horizon (i.e., short‐term vs. long‐term effects).
Sinwoo Lee +4 more
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Analyzing structural change in the secondary market for developing-country debt: a translog approach
Economia Aplicada, 1998 This paper examines changes in the relative price relationships between Latin American external debt instruments with the use of a translogarithmic utility function. An examination of price and external debt data for five heavily indebted Latin American
Thomas J. Webster, Michael Szenberg
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Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompete Agreements in France
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can collective bargaining mitigate monopsony power? This paper studies the extent to which collective agreements regulating employee noncompete clauses affect firm‐level markdowns in French manufacturing. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences design, we find that such regulation reduces markdowns by 1.3%–2.2% on average.
Tito Boeri +3 more
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A Unified Approach to Estimating Production Functions: Proxy Variables and Dynamic Panel Data
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a new approach to production function estimation that integrates the strengths of the proxy‐variable (PV) and dynamic panel data (DPD) methods. Our framework augments the set of instruments for the level equation in Blundell and Bond [8] with a Berkson‐type instrument motivated by economic theory, following Olley and Pakes [28 ...
Jose Miguel Abito +1 more
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using two approaches, we contribute to sub‐national economic performance measurement by netting out the influence of a region's performance on its industries. The first approach measures performance using technical efficiency and involves introducing the first multilevel spatial stochastic frontier model.
Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva
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GDP and GDI Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: Multiplicative Fisher Decompositions
Review of International Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most national statistical agencies still use chained Laspeyres indices in their national accounts, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and Statistics Canada have been at the forefront for the past two decades by using instead a superlative index—the Fisher index—when computing price and quantity indices for GDP and its components.
Ulrich Kohli
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Economias de escala na produção de frangos de corte no Brasil
Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2005 Neste trabalho, estima-se os parâmetros de uma função de custos translog, que se mostrou adequada para representar a estrutura de custos do setor de produção de frangos de corte no Brasil.
Luís Alberto Ferreira Garcia +1 more
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