Report NEP-EFF-2012-10-13

This is the archive for NEP-EFF, a report on new working papers in the area of Efficiency and Productivity. Angelo Zago issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Maria Olivares & Andrea Schenker-Wicki, 2012. "The Dynamics of Productivity in the Swiss and German University Sector: A Non-Parametric Analysis that Accounts for Heterogeneous Production," Working Papers 309, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).
• Shepherd, Ben, 2012. "Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries," MPRA Paper 41760, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Martin Lábaj & Róbert Kúšik, 2012. "Analysis of the sources of economic growth and TFP level in V4 countries and in Finland," EAPG Working Paper Series 004, Department of Economic Policy, Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava.
• Graziano Abrate & Fabrizio Erbetta & Giovanni Fraquelli & Davide Vannoni, 2012. "The Costs of Corruption in the Italian Solid Waste Industry," Working papers 004, Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche), University of Torino.
• Alejandra Trejo, 2012. "Economic efficiency of the Mexican metropolitan regions between 1998 and 2008," ERSA conference papers ersa12p974, European Regional Science Association.
• Despotis, Dimitrs & Koronakos, Gregory & Sotiros, Dimitris, 2012. "Additive decomposition in two-stage DEA: An alternative approach," MPRA Paper 41724, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Chiranjib Neogi & Atsuko Kamiike & Takahiro Sato, 2012. "Identification of Factors Behind Performance of Pharmaceutical Industries in India," Discussion Paper Series DP2012-23, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
• Xu, Jin & Zervopoulos, Panagiotis & Qian, Zhenhua & Cheng, Gang, 2012. "A universal solution for units-invariance in data envelopment analysis," MPRA Paper 41633, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Wagner, Christina & Huttel, Silke & Odening, Martin, 2012. "Dynamic Efficiency Under Uncertainty: An Application To German Dairy Farms," 52nd Annual Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, September 26-28, 2012 133826, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
• Ronald B. Davies & Tine Jeppesen, 2012. "Export mode, Trade Costs, and Productivity Sorting," Working Papers 201225, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
• Sauer, Johannes & Davidova, Sophia & Gorton, Matthew, 2012. "Land fragmentation, market integration and farm efficiency: empirical evidence from Kosovo," 86th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2012, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 134968, Agricultural Economics Society.
• Blancard, Stephane & Martin, Elsa, 2012. "The measurement of energy performance," 86th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2012, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 135123, Agricultural Economics Society.
• Soushi Suzuki & Peter Nijkamp & Piet Rietveld, 2012. "A preference allocation-DFM model in Data Envelopment Analysis -An application to Energy-Environment-Economic efficiency in Japan-," ERSA conference papers ersa12p332, European Regional Science Association.
• João Pedro Jardim & Maria Baltazar & Jorge Silva, 2012. "Airports Performance And Efficiency Evaluation Based On Multidimentional Tools," ERSA conference papers ersa12p849, European Regional Science Association.
• Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol & Mohammad Hossein Tavassoli, 2012. "Bridging Firm’s Innovation, Productivity and Export: An Analysis using Swedish CIS data," ERSA conference papers ersa12p885, European Regional Science Association.
• John G. Fernald, 2012. "Productivity and potential output before, during, and after the Great Recession," Working Paper Series 2012-18, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
• Baráth, Lajos & Ferto, Imre, 2012. "Estimating technical efficiency under technological heterogeneity in Hungarian crop sector," 86th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2012, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 134961, Agricultural Economics Society.
• Graziano Abrate & Fabrizio Erbetta & Giovanni Fraquelli & Davide Vannoni, 2012. "Size and Density Economies in Refuse Collection," Working papers 009, Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche), University of Torino.
• Churen Sun & Zhihao Yu & Tao Zhang, 2012. "Agglomeration, Productivity, and Firms¡® Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firm-level Data," ERSA conference papers ersa12p882, European Regional Science Association.
• Andreas Koch & Elena Biewen, 2012. "Are Firms in Business Groups More Productive? An empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity," ERSA conference papers ersa12p795, European Regional Science Association.
• Benedetto Molinari & Jesús Rodríguez López & Jose Luis Torres, 2012. "Technological Progress and Growth in Selected Pacific Countries," Working Papers 12.07, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
• John G. Fernald, 2012. "A quarterly, utilization-adjusted series on total factor productivity," Working Paper Series 2012-19, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
• Kelly, S. & Pollitt, M. & Crawford-Brown, D., 2012. "Building performance evaluation and certification in the UK: a critical review of SAP?," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1238, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
• Emanuela Marrocu & Raffaele Paci, 2012. "Regional development and creativity," ERSA conference papers ersa12p375, European Regional Science Association.
• Breen, James P. & Clancy, Daragh & Donnellan, Trevor & Hanrahan, Kevin F., 2012. "Estimating the Elasticity of Demand and the Production Response for Nitrogen Fertiliser on Irish Farms," 86th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2012, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 134965, Agricultural Economics Society.
• Alistair Munro & Arjan Verschoor & Amaresh Dubey, 2012. "Does working with spouses make teams more productive? A field experiment in India using NREGA," GRIPS Discussion Papers 12-09, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
• Sauer, Johannes & Walsh, John & Zilberman, David, 2012. "Behavioural Change through Agri-Environmental Policies ? – A Distance Function based Matching Approach," 86th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2012, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 134783, Agricultural Economics Society.
• Boeing, Philipp & Mueller, Elisabeth & Sandner, Philipp, 2012. "What makes Chinese firms productive? Learning from indigenous and foreign sources of knowledge," Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series 196, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
• Timo Mitze & Alfredo R. Paloyo & Björn Alecke, 2012. "Quasi-experimental Methods in Empirical Regional Science and Policy Analysis – Is there a Scope for Application?," Ruhr Economic Papers 0367, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Dortmund, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
• Antonella Basso & Stefania Funari, 2012. "Constant and variable returns to scale DEA models for socially responsible investment funds," Working Papers 2012_20, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
• Nicola Pontarollo & Elisa Montresor & Francesco Pecci, 2012. "Sectoral productivity convergence between European regions: does space matter?," ERSA conference papers ersa12p559, European Regional Science Association.
• Slavomir Hidas & Martyna Wolska & Manfred M Fischer & Thomas Scherngell, 2012. "Agglomeration and network effects on regional knowledge production activities in Europe," ERSA conference papers ersa12p393, European Regional Science Association.