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Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

Creator:

Zelenyuk, Valentin

Abstract:

In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In particular, I present some new theoretical relationships between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...

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Dissertation
Essays on ethanol-driven corn demand and crop choice

Creator:

Marshall, Kandice Kleiber

Abstract:

Two essays are focused on crop choice and the growth of corn production in the Corn Belt and surrounding areas. The first essay develops a partially degenerate nested logit model to examine the effect of price islands and local ethanol capacity on corn production and crop mix. The primary data...

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Dissertation
Essays on environmental productivity

Creator:

Bellenger, Moriah J., 1980-

Abstract:

The following three essays explore the use of the directional output distance function (Chambers et al., 1996), an economic model originally developed to measure efficiency and productivity for multi-input and multi-output production processes, to assess performance for multi-attributed environmental processes. The first essay illustrates the use of the directional output...

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Dissertation
Measuring efficiency and explaining failures in banking : application to the Russian banking sector

Creator:

Konstandina, Natalia V.

Abstract:

This study has two main objectives. First, we propose an alternative way for treating deposits in modeling a banking firm, which account for both their input and output features. Second, we contribute to modeling failures in the banking sector by distinguishing three groups of factors affecting failures: bank level, industry...

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Dissertation