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Energy Substitution Effect in Major Energy Consumption Sectors of Pakistan: Translog Cost Function
Review of Economics and Development Studies, 2022 There is inadequate works available in the case of Pakistan that have tested the rebound effect due to energy use and its impacts on the environment, so in this study, comparative analysis of energy substitution effect on Pakistan’ three major energy consumption sectors industrial, transport and electricity sector has done, by using the translog cost ...
Sidra Nazir +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis +1 more
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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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The Study of Nature and Trend of Technological Change in Iran's Industry (1971-2008) [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2011 Technological evolutions as one of basic resources of productivity growth plays a significant role in economic growth. Therefore, after world war ІІ, the determination of measure and bias of technological change has been subject of many research efforts.
Nader Dashti +2 more
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Medidas de custo-eficiência dos serviços subnacionais de segurança pública no Brasil: 2001-2006
Economia Aplicada, 2010 Calculamos índices de custo-eficiência para os serviços estaduais de segurança pública no Brasil com um modelo de fronteira estocástica e dados longitudinais 2001-2006.
Oliveira Alves Pereira Filho +2 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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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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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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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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Shareholder value in Croatian banking sector
Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics, 2019 The view on banks as investments in Croatia is challenged by two phenomena: dual holdings (owners are intensely involved in bank balance sheet as, apart from equity, they provide a significant portion of deposits and loans) and the impediments to ...
Huljak Ivan
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