Report NEP-EFF-2018-10-15

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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• Germà Bel & Marc Esteve, 2018. "“Is Private Production of Hospital Services Cheaper than Public Production? A Meta-Regression of Public vs Private Costs and Efficiency for Hospitals”," IREA Working Papers 201824, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Oct 2018.
• Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste & Stavropoulos, Spyridon & Burger, Martijn, 2018. "European Regional Productive Performance under a Metafrontier Framework. The role of patents and human capital on technology gap?," MPRA Paper 88957, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Jul 2018.
• Florian Ploeckl, 2017. "National rules, regional differences? Explaining the regional provision and productivity of a public monopolist: The case of the German Reichspost," Working Papers 17013, Economic History Society.
• Santos, Eleonora, 2017. "Assessing the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Manufacturing Firms’ Productivity: A Database for Portugal," MPRA Paper 88959, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Steffen Elstner & Lars P. Feld & Christoph M. Schmidt, 2018. "The German Productivity Paradox - Facts and Explanations," CESifo Working Paper Series 7231, CESifo.
• Subhash C. Ray & Abhiman Das & Kankana Mukherjee, 2018. "Measures of Labor Use Efficiency from a Cost-Based Dual Representation of the Technology: A Study of Indian Bank Branches," Working papers 2018-17, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
• Macharia, Anthony Mwangi & Carpio, E Carlos & Kirimi, Lilian, 2018. "Effect of Irrigation Technology Adoption on Smallholder Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Productivity in Kenya," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266688, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
• Hadush, Muuz, 2018. "Impact of improved animal feeding practice on milk production, consumption and animal market participation in Tigrai, Ethiopia," Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej 276473, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI).
• Polemis, Michael & Stengos, Thanasis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2018. "Modeling the effect of competition using robust conditional nonparametric frontiers: Evidence from U.S. manufacturing sector," MPRA Paper 89240, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Mark Andor & Christopher F. Parmeter & Stephan Sommer, 2018. "Combining Uncertainty with Uncertainty to Get Certainty? Efficiency Analysis for Regulation Purposes," Working Papers 2018-02, University of Miami, Department of Economics.
• Saavoss, Monica, 2018. "Productivity and Profitability of Precision Agriculture Technologies on Peanut Farms," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266586, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
• Haoyuan Liu & Wen Wen & Andrew B. Whinston, 2018. "Peer influence in the workplace: Evidence from an enterprise digital platform," Working Papers 18-08, NET Institute.
• Shee, Apurba & Pervez, Shadayen & Turvey, Calum G., 2018. "Heterogeneous Impacts of Credit Rationing on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Kenya," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274224, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Pierre-Daniel Sarte & Nicholas Trachter, 2018. "Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration," NBER Working Papers 25066, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Ouaida, Fadila & El Hajjar, Samer, 2018. "Assessing e-commerce productivity for French micro firms using propensity score matching," Economics Discussion Papers 2018-66, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
• Balana, Bedru & Bizimana, Jean-Claude & Richardson, James W. & Lefore, Nicole & Adimassu, Zenebe & Herbst, Brian K., 2018. "Profitability and Economic Feasibility Analysis of Small Scale Irrigation Technologies in northern Ghana," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266558, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
• Padilla, Samantha & Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis S., 2018. "The Effects of High Input Costs on Broiler Farm Productivity in Nigeria: A Dynamic Modelling Approach," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 273770, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Micheels, Eric T. & Paulson, Nick & Skolrud, Tristan D., 2018. "A Structural Equation Model of Farm Performance," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 273777, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Wang, Yang & Dong, Fengxia & Xu, Jiabin, 2018. "Production Efficiency of Scaled-up Agricultural Operations in China: An Empirical Analysis," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274344, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Cheptea, Angela & Laroche-Dupraz, Cathie, 2018. "The water productivity of internationally traded agricultural products," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274386, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Ma, Wanglin & Renwick, Alan & Bicknell, Kathryn, 2018. "Feed Use Intensification and Technical Efficiency of Dairy Farms in New Zealand," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274394, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Soliman, Tarek & Djanibekov, Utkur, 2018. "Assessing dairy farming eco-efficiency in New Zealand: A two–stage data envelopment analysis," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274374, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Ramsey, Austin F. & Wang, Huaiyu, 2018. "Non-Farm Income and Technical Efficiency in the Uplands of Yunnan, China: A Bayesian Non-Crossing Quantile Regression Approach," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274375, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Raffaella Santolini, 2018. "Spatial effects on local government efficiency," Working Papers 432, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali.
• Foltz, Jeremy D. & Traore, Nouhoum, 2018. "Temperatures, Productivity, and Firm Competitiveness in Developing Countries: Evidence From Africa," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274434, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Yao, Becatien H. & Shanoyan, Aleksan, 2018. "Could mobile money applications improve farm productivity? Insights from rural Mozambique," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274225, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Anwar Shaikh & Luiza Nassif, 2018. "Eigenvalue distribution, matrix size and the linearity of wage-profit curves," Working Papers 1812, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.
• Vaiknoras, Kate A. & Larochelle, Catherine, 2018. "The Impact of Biofortified Iron Bean Adoption on Productivity, and Bean Consumption, Purchases and Sales," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274231, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Michael Pammer, 2017. "Did higher inequality in agriculture enhance productivity? The case of Cisleithania, 1902," Working Papers 17006, Economic History Society.
• Danelon, André F. & Spolador, Humberto F.S. & Bergtold, Jason S., 2018. "Determinants of technical efficiency in the Brazilian sugarcane agroindustry," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274330, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Börjesson, Maria & Isacsson, Gunnar & Andersson, Matts & Anderstig, Christer, 2018. "Agglomeration, productivity and the role of transport system improvements," Working papers in Transport Economics 2018:16, CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI).
• Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte & Nicholas Trachter, 2018. "Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration," Working Paper 18-15, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
• Wimmer, Stefan G. & Sauer, Johannes, 2018. "Market Deregulation and Sector Profitability: Empirical Evidence from Sugar Beet Farming in Germany," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274382, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Singh, Gurbir & Asirvatham, Jebaraj, 2018. "Using Precision Agriculture to Develop Production Functions Using Landscape Positions in Mollisols and Alfisols of Illinois," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274378, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Hadrich, Joleen C. & Pendell, Dustin L. & Kim, Youngjune, 2018. "The effect of financial structure and efficiency on Kansas farm growth," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274110, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Frank A. Wolak, 2018. "The Evidence from California on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Distribution Network Pricing," NBER Working Papers 25087, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.