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Camilla Mastromarco
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Open AccessLegality rating and corporate efficiency: evidence from a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis
Promoting legality and productivity is a central issue in modern economies. In this paper, we investigate the implications of a public policy that aims at achieving these goals through the adoption of the so-c...
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Teaching Efficiency of Italian Universities: A Conditional Frontier Analysis
The aim of this chapter is to provide a comparative analysis of the performance of teaching at Italian university by evaluating the efficiency of heterogeneous faculty courses at the national level. For this p...
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Open AccessPredicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy
Despite the long and great history, developed institutions, and high level of physical and human capital, the Italian economy has been fairly stagnant during the last three decades. In this paper, we merge two...
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Open AccessLatent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier
Although human capital has been recognized as playing important role in spurring productivity growth, its empirical effect remains ambiguous due to the possibility of latent heterogeneity. To reveal the impact...
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Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach
This paper estimates the cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006–2010. We employ the conditional order-m approach to assess how inpatient costs in a hospital translate to inpatie...
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Nonparametric Statistical Analysis of Production
A rich literature on the analysis of efficiency in production has developed since pioneering work of Tjalling Koopmans and George Debreu in the 1950s. This literature includes work by researchers in economics,...
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Reconciling the Porter hypothesis with the traditional paradigm about environmental regulation: a nonparametric approach
This paper estimates the impact of pollution abatement investments on the production technology of firms by pursuing two new directions. First, we take advantage of recent econometric developments in productiv...
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Modelling in the Presence of Cross-sectional Error Dependence
Given the growing availability of big datasets which contain information on multiple dimensions and following the recent research trend on multidimensional modelling, we develop three-dimensional panel data mo...
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Multilateral Resistance and the Euro Effects on Trade Flows
Recently, an investigation of unobserved and time-varying multilateral resistance and omitted trade determinants has assumed a prominent role in order to precisely measure the Euro effects on trade. We impleme...
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Technical Efficiency and Governance: The Case of China
Inefficient resource use by its enterprises may challenge the sustainability of Chinas intense and prolonged growth. Relying on a properly representative database of mainland Chinas economy, we investigate whe...
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Be productive or face decline. On the sources and determinants of output growth in Italian manufacturing firms
This article investigates the sources and determinants of output growth of Italian manufacturing firms. Applying stochastic frontier techniques, we decompose output growth into factor accumulation and TFP grow...
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Public Infrastructure Investment and Efficiency in Italian Regions
Evidence on growth rates in per capita income of Italian regions reveals persistent differences in development patterns between North and South Italy. While Northern regions manage to sustain high growth rates...
