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Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry

efficiency, and unobserved heterogeneity. We also examine the impact on both persistent and transient efficiency of (i) ownership structure, (ii) political stability, (iii) airline geographical location, (iv ... considerable political interference, and are characterized by a lack of cooperation (Button et al. 2017, Button 2022) . This explains why airline efficiency growth is considered one of the main paths ahead for

Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies

suppose that there are only two departments: Economics and Philosophy. Since the teachers in economics cannot be freely (at no cost) reallocated to the philosophy department (and vice-versa), the way one ... philosophy. The entries for the number of philosophers in the economics department will all be equal to zero (and viceversa). Therefore when one is summing up the inputs to the university level, the overall

Peter Ahlwardt’s Theology of Thunder

which belongs to a very strong physico-theology movement at that time. This article situates this very small portion of physico-theology in the context of Ahlwardt’s philosophy and theology. In his ... doskonałości Boga. Słowa kluczowe: Ahlwardt, fizyko-teologia, grzmot, błyskawica, atrybuty Boga - Streszczenie Introduction Peter Ahlwardt (1710–1791) was an adjunct and then a professor of philosophy at the

Stanowisko Kościoła katolickiego wobec szczepionek przeciw Covid-19

issues concerning vaccination among various communities (medical, bioethical, ecclesiastical, and political). The aim of this article is to review official documents of the Catholic Church that present its ... allows for a clear point of reference for believers when making a decision on receiving the vaccine. Those responsible for making political, logistic, or organisational decisions related to vaccination

Otwartość Boga. Wieczność i wolna wola

This article is an analysis of the doctrine of divine eternity. The sources for this doctrine can be traced back to the philosophy of Boethius or Thomas Aquinas. According to the doctrine of divine ... artykule Omnipresence, Indwelling, and the Second-Personal, „European Journal for Philosophy of Religion” 5 (2013) 4, s. 63–87. Takie stanowisko głoszą również inni myśliciele. Zob. A. Plantinga, On

"Ressentiment

, usually directed against another human being. Using the knowledge of this mechanism, one can see a practical application in Nietzsche’s philosophy (dualism: the weak-strong and the victory of slave morality

Eucharystia Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w Niemczech w dobie pandemii COVID-19

This article draws on the experiences of the Federal Republic of Germany and provides a theological reflection on the consequences of political decisions made in response to the spread of COVID-19

Wolność religijna w kontekście chrześcijańskich mniejszości religijnych w regionie MENA

The aim of this article is to analyse the religious, social, and political situation of Christians in Muslim countries in the MENA region (North Africa and the Middle East). The first part of this

Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale

( 1957 ) The measurement of productive efficiency . J R Stat Soc Ser A Gen 120 : 253 - 290 Farrell MJ ( 1959 ) The convexity assumption in the theory of competitive markets . J Political Econ 67 : 377 ... - 391 Farrell MJ ( 1961 ) On convexity, efficiency, and markets: a reply . J Political Econ 69 : 484 - 489 Fisher I ( 1921 ) The best form of index number . J Am Stat Assoc 17 : 533 - 537 Fisher I ( 1922

Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa

South African university system. South Africa has a population of roughly 60 million people where 80% are black Africans. It is a country undergoing rapid social transformations where social, political ... . In addition, more “social” forces may be at play: for example, political power within a department, local and international networks of collaborators, the likelihood of experiencing discrimination, to

Production analysis with asymmetric noise

political science as variables such as casualities are reported via governments which may have an incentive to skew their values. 1.1 Modeling asymmetry in production If such asymmetries in preferences and ... with composed error . Int Econ Rev 18 : 435 - 444 Millimet DL , Parmeter CF ( 2022 ) Accounting for skewed or one-sided measurement error in the dependent variable . Political Anal 30 : 66 - 88 Olson JA

Instytucjonalizacja konfliktu prawo – sumienie jako współczesne wyzwanie dla systemów prawnych continental law

The strongest version of the conscience-statutory law conflict, known from antiquity, is found in the events of the twentieth century. The effects of ethically outrageous political or normative ... /un.universal.declaration.of.human.rights.1948.portrait.letter.pdf (dostęp: 17.03.2021); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Adopted and opened for si gnature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution

Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models

. In addition, underreporting may dampen public and political support for more stringent measures such as investments in medical equipment, mandatory masks or mandatory lockdowns. As the undocumented ... current coronavirus cases depend on a set of geographic, demographic and political characteristics of each country. For comparison purposes, however, we also estimate a SIR-based model that instead uses

Diritto alla pace, giustizia e “guerra giusta”

with the common mentality, for which war is independent of any moral evaluation and only serves to achieve other political objectives (Clausewitz). This conception produced dramatic disasters in the

Ingerencje władz państwowych w sprawowanie kultu publicznego na przykładzie działań zielonogórskiej administracji wyznaniowej wobec Kościoła gorzowskiego w latach 1945-1972

and other denominations. He did not run an independent policy, but performed the tasks assigned by the political bureau of the Central Committee of the PZPR. In voivodeships, in turn, policy towards

José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (1966–2020)

passion for science, energetic personality and collaborative philosophy, which he incorporated into a unique way of doing research. Over the course of his career, he published 117 scientific articles with

O działaniu, zaniechaniu i dopuszczeniu śmierci

Categories of action, lack of action and release of death are the subject of lively discussion especially in the circle of analytic philosophy. Philosophical analysis in this article focuses

The determinants of productivity in Chinese large and medium-sized industrial firms, 1998–2007

industries and a usually large positive trend representing technical change. Various firm characteristics such as age, ownership, political affiliation, export behavior, liquidity, and geographic location are ... firm ownership, export behavior, age, political affiliation, intangible assets, liquidity, and geographic location). This is important as omission of these variables would produce biased estimates of the

Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective

, which may lead to wrong political decisions because the primary goals are not achieved, whereas “doing nothing” is 100% efficient in any case, but usually not effective! 2.2 Coupled production as causal ... River NJ Jevons WS ( 1871 ) The theory of political economy . Augustus M. Kelley, London, 1965 Jordan B ( 2017 ) Companions and competitors: Joint metal-supply relationships in gold, silver, copper, lead

On hypothesis testing in latent class and finite mixture stochastic frontier models, with application to a contaminated normal-half normal model

in U.S. electric power generation . J Political Econom 84 : 655 - 676 Colombi R , Kumbhakar SC , Martini G , Vittadini G ( 2014 ) Closedskew normality in stochastic frontiers with individual effects