STRUK, M., SOUKOPOVÁ, J.: Effi ciency of the current municipal waste expenditure – methodology approach and its application. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 7, pp. 379–386 The paper introduces methodology designed in order to evaluate and compare effi ciency of chosen municipal waste expenditure via calculating effi ciency ratings. First part of the paper briefl y des...

Using household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2012, we employ an instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimate fuel price and effi ciency elasticities. The aim is to gauge the relative impacts of fuel economy standards and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We fi nd that the magnitudes of the elasticity estimates are statistically indistinguishable: higher fuel prices ...

One of the advantages of estimating a conduct parameter game, compared with the Lerner index, is that the knowledge of cost shifters is suffi cient to get the “implied marginal cost”estimates. Stochastic frontier literature suffers from the same problem that it requires a detailed data set in order to estimate cost effi ciencies of the firms. This paper develops a model to estimate firm specifi...

1Carrington Research Extension Center, NDSU 2Hettinger Research Extension Center, NDSU The objective of this project was to evaluate corn processed by fi ne grinding or rolling or fed whole in relation to dietary forage level for fi nishing yearling steers. Results indicate when forage levels are greater than 15.5 percent on a dry-matter basis, dry rolling or fi nely grinding corn to maintain a...

the paper attempts to study the efficiency of crop production and resource use effi-ciency on temple tenants and owner farms in tirunelveli district of tamil nadu. a sam-ple of 90 temple tenants and 50 owner farmers from two taluks of tirunelveli district, nawely, shencottah and tenkasi were selected for the study. the reference period of the study was 2002-2003. the efficiency analysis with th...

In this paper, we demonstrate the effi ciency of seller entry in a model of competing auctions in which we allow for both buyer and seller heterogeneity. This generalizes existing effi ciency results in the competitive search literature by simultaneously allowing for nonrival (many-on-one) meetings and private information. ∗We thank Andrzej Skrzypacz, our editor, and Jeremy Bulow for their help...

This paper investigates the circumstances under which negotiating simultaneously over multiple issues or assets helps reduce ineffi ciencies due to the presence of asymmetric information. Consider the case where one agent controls all assets. One would expect that strong substitutabilities among assets, would help trade, as the seller would value the additional units less. We show that this int...

Using three-wave survey data for four villages of Jiangsu Province in China, the present paper examines whether and to what extent off-farm employment affects the technical efficiency of agricultural production. The level of technical efficiency is measured using a stochastic frontier production function approach. Based on estimation results from instrumental variable panel quantile regressions...