More free trade areas? by Schott, Jeffrey J

Table of Contents: “…-- A US-ASEAN FTA? -- A US-Australia FTA? -- A Pacific rim FTA? -- 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations: The limits of FTAs -- Implications for US trade policy -- Conclusions -- Annex A. …”

Public sector integrity : a framework for assessment /

Table of Contents: “…The experiences of OECD countries -- Review on assessing effectiveness of integrity and anti-corruption measures in the Korean public services -- Evaluating the effectiveness of measures to prevent and combat corruption in France -- Developing policy assessment measures for integrity and corruption prevention activities: the Australian experience -- Values to be part of the daily job: the finnish experience -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of boxes.…”

A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata / Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Brian S. Everitt. by Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia

Table of Contents: “…Generalized linear models: australian school children -- 8. Summary measure analysis of longitudinal data: treatment of post-natal depression -- 9. …”
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Agricultural economics new research /

Table of Contents: “…A compartive economic study of China's and Australia's cotton production / X. Zhao and C. Tisdell -- 3. …”

Economic growth /

Sistemas de recuperación e internet : metadescripción, procesamiento webcrawling, técnicas de consulta avanzada, hacking documental y posicionamiento web / by Blázquez Ochando, Manuel

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Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF) en Argentina : XYZ modelos de estados financieros /

Estadística : las ciencias sociales en la enseñanza superior / by Mahalanobis, P. C. (Prasanta Chandra), 1893-1972

Table of Contents: “…República Federal Alemana -- 2. Argentina -- 3. Australia -- 4. Brasil -- 5. Canadá -- 6. Ceilán -- 7. …”

China : a new model for growth and development /

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Bayesian methods for statistical analysis / by Puza, Borek D.

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Counting the poor : new thinking about European poverty measures and lessons for the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Whelan -- Poverty redefined as low consumption and low wealth, not just low income : psychological consequences in Australia and Germany / Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, and Gert G. …”

Handbook of choice modelling /

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Consecuencias económicas del tamaño de las naciones / selección y presentación de E. A. G. Robinson. by Robinson, E. A. G. (Edward Austin Gossage), 1897-1993

Table of Contents: “…Nota sobre el tamaño de los estados y el costo de la administración de Australia -- El comercio exterior como escape de la pequeñez: 16. …”

Business and the risk of crime in China / the 2005-2006 China international crime against business survey /

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Yo no me quiero ir : claves y razones para apostar por la Argentina / by Sturzenegger, Federico, 1966-

China's 40 years of reformed development 1978-2018 /

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An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis /

Table of Contents: “…2: REVIEW OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Production Functions 2.3 Transformation Functions 2.4 Cost Functions 2.5 Revenue Functions 2.6 Profit Functions 2.7 Conclusions. 3: PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Set Theoretic Representation of a Production Technology 3.3 Output and Input Distance Functions 3.4 Efficiency Measurement using Distance, Cost and Revenue Functions 3.5 Measuring Productivity and Productivity Change 3.6 Conclusions. 4: INDEX NUMBERS AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Conceptual Framework and Notation 4.3 Formulae for Price Index Numbers 4.4 Quantity Index Numbers 4.5 Properties of Index Numbers: The Test Approach 4.6 The Economic-Theoretic Approach 4.7 A Simple Numerical Example 4.8 Tansitivity in Multilateral Comparisons 4.9 TFP Change Measurement Using Index Numbers 4.10 Empirical Application: Australian National Railways 4.11 Conclusions. 5: DATA AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Outputs 5.3 Inputs 5.4 Prices 5.5 Comparisons over time 5.6 Output aggregates for sectoral and economy-wide comparisons 5.7 Cross-country comparisons of productivity 5.8 Data editing and errors 5.9 Conclusions. 6: DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Constant Returns to Scale DEA Model 6.3 The Variable Returns to Scale Model and Scale Efficiencies 6.4 Input and Output Orientations 6.5 Conclusions. 7: ADDITIONAL TOPICS ON DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSTS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Price Information and Allocative Efficiency 7.3 Non-Discretionary Variables 7.4 Adjusting for the Environment 7.5 Input Congestion 7.6 Treatment of Slacks 7.7 Additional Methods 7.8 Empirical Application: Australian Universities 7.9 Conclusions. 8: ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Production, Cost and Profit Functions 8.3 Single Equation Estimation 8.4 Imposing Equality Constraints 8.5 Hypothesis Testing 8.6 Systems Estimation 8.7 Inequality Constraints 8.8 The Bayesian Approach 8.9 Simulation Methods 8.10 Conclusion. 9: STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Stochastic Production Frontier 9.3 Estimating the Parameters 9.4 Predicting Technical Efficiency 9.5 Hypothesis Testing 9.6 Conclusions. 10: ADDITIONAL TOPICS ON STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Distance Functions 10.3 Cost Frontiers 10.4 Decomposing Cost Efficiency 10.5 Scale Efficiency 10.6 Panel Data Models 10.7 Accounting for the Production Environment 10.8 The Bayesian Approach 10.9 Conclusions. 11: THE CALCULATION AND DECOMPOSITION OF PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE USING FRONTIER METHODS 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Malmquist TFP Index and Panel Data 11.3 Calculation using DEA Frontiers 11.4 Calculation using SFA Frontiers 11.5 An Empirical Application 11.6 Conclusions. 12: Conclusions 12.1 Summary of Methods 12.2 Relative Merits of the Methods 12.3 Some Final Points Appendix 1: Computer Software Appendix 2: Philippines Rice Data References Author Index Subject Index…”

La Argentina en transición /

Table of Contents: “…La metáfora de la sociedad enferma / Francisco Delich -- Privatización autoritaria y recreación de la escena pública / Oscar Oszlak -- "Desde la orilla de la ciencia" acotaciones sobre identidad, información y proyecto cultural en etapa de crisis / Aníbal Ford -- Cultura y política en la transición a la democracia / Oscar Landi -- La política económica en una sociedad democrática, la Argentina futura / Roque Carranza -- Guerra, política y sociedad en la ideología de la corporación militar argentina / Gustavo Druetta -- Bibliografía sobre la Argentina -- Dossier: Argentina ¿una Australia italiana? / Torcuato Di Tella -- Movimiento obrero argentino 1930-45 de H. …”

Corruption and anti-corruption /

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Labour History.