The Coexistence of Multiple Distributions Systems for Financial Services: The Case of Property-Liability Insurance [PDF]
Property-liability insurance is distributed by two different types of firms, those that distribute their product through independent agents, who represent more than one insurer,and direct writing insurers that distribute insurance through exclusive ...
Allen N. Berger +2 more
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SOME TESTS OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF COOPERATIVES: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION TO COTTON GINNING [PDF]
Little progress has been made in testing the often conflicting hypotheses generated from theoretical research on cooperatives. This paper addresses the deficiency by describing and applying (to California cotton ginning cooperatives) a methodology to ...
Sexton, Richard J. +2 more
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Efficiency in reducing air pollutants and healthcare expenditure in the Seoul Metropolitan City of South Korea. [PDF]
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2021 Kumbhakar SC +3 more
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TEXAS FIELD CROPS: ESTIMATION WITH CURVATURE [PDF]
Some implications of theory are easily maintained in econometric estimation, but computational costs of maintaining curvature properties (sufficient for existence of an optimal solution) have often proved prohibitive.
Alexander, William P. +2 more
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Measuring the Market Power of China's Medical Product Exports. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Wu W, Zhang H, Huang L, Wang L.
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SHORT- AND LONG-RUN DEMAND AND SUBSTITUTION OF AGRICULTURAL INPUTS [PDF]
Short- and long-run Hicksian and Marshallian elasticities are estimated, along with Morishima elasticities of substitution, using a restricted profit function and a series of decomposition equations.
Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
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Dynamics in the Returns to Capital: Natural Experimental Evidence from Indonesia. [PDF]
J Dev Stud, 2022 Wong PY.
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INPUT FACTOR SUBSTITUTABILITY IN SALMON AQUACULTURE [PDF]
The salmon aquaculture industry has experienced substantial expansion during the last two decades. This expansion is largely the result of increased productivity, with a complementary decrease in costs.
Guttormsen, Atle G.
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Agricultural trade liberalization, governance quality, and technical efficiency in the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia. [PDF]
HeliyonTrakem V, Fan H.
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Women's political leadership and efficiency in reducing COVID-19 death rate: An application of technical inefficiency effects model across Indian states. [PDF]
Socioecon Plann Sci, 2022 Maity S, Barlaskar UR.
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