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(Cont.)--Personality in organization, by H. Emerson.--Efficiency of the United States Navy, by A.M. Knight.--Naval ships, by R.H.M. Robinson.--Efficiency and South American trade, by W.S. Kies.--Efficiency of preparedness in business, by John Calder.--Imagination in salesmanship, by N.A. Brisco.--Socitey affairs, March, April and May, 1916.--Society affairs: Fall convention, 1916.--Time study, by D.V. Merrick.--Discussion on time study. ; Essentials in maximum production, by C.E. Knoeppel.--Efficiency, scientific management and organized labor, by Miner Chipman.--Scientific management and labor, by J.P. Frey.--The brief for scientific management, by D.T. Farnham.--Handling men, by G.S. Radford.--The need of efficiency in government, by F.M. Hugo.--Sales efficiency committee.--Society affairs.--The businessman's intellectual life, by John Calder.--Routing-schedule and dispatch, by G. DeA. Babcock.--Getting the office work done, by H.D. Greeley.--Budget making, by F.R. Hazard.--Efficient business corporations and trusts, by A.P.W. Seaman.--Management thru committees, by C.U. Carpenter.--The relation of the cost department of the factory organization, by C.H. Scovell.--Co-operation between competitors, by W.N. Dickinson.--Scientific management and the labor problem, by R.R. Kent. ; Microfilm. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Filmed; ; No. 2 on a reel of 11 titles. ; Master negative: 95-82370-2.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Principal Authors -- Contributing Authors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Performance-based contracts - setting the scene -- 1.1 Introduction - PBCs and PPPs -- 1.1.1 Specificity of PBCs -- 1.1.2 Legal framework -- 1.1.3 Designing a PBC -- 1.2 References -- Chapter 2: PBC and results-based financing: The inverse approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Direct Problem -- 2.3 The Inverse Problem -- 2.4 Case Study -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 2.6 References -- Chapter 3: PBC and energy efficiency -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Energy Savings from Pumping -- 3.3 Other Energy Efficiency (EE) Possibilities -- 3.4 Performance-Based Contracts For Energy Efficiency -- 3.5 Designing and Implementing an EE Performance-Based Contract -- 3.6 Case Studies -- 3.6.1 Yerevan (Armenia) -- 3.6.2 Emfuleni (South Africa) -- 3.6.3 Larger contracts including an EE performance based component -- 3.6.4 Milwaukee -- 3.6.5 Lynn -- 3.7 References -- Chapter 4: Internal performance contracts: A case of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation in Uganda -- 4.1 Introduction: Why this Chapter? -- 4.2 IPCs at NWSC: Identity Card -- 4.3 Prerequisites for IPC Successful Implementation: Strong Foundations and Competition with the Private Sector -- 4.4 IPCs: An Integral Part of an Organisational Structure, A Management Style and an Organisational Culture -- 4.4.1 Key 1: Making managers accountable -- 4.4.2 Key 2: Motivate the staff -- 4.4.3 Key 3: Monitor and evaluate performance -- 4.4.4 Key 4: Manage resistance to change -- 4.5 IPCs: Only Constant is Change -- 4.5.1 Find the right balance between individual and collective incentive mechanism -- 4.5.2 Adjust the definition of performance over time -- 4.5.3 Find the right balance between control and confidence -- 4.5.4 Keep motivation high -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 Note -- 4.8 References.

The subject of the research is the dynamics of the volume of state support for domestic producers. The purpose of the research is to assess the current state, trends in providing state support for domestic producers, as well as to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of such state measures. Methods of the research. Methodological basis for the research was the use of a set of general scientific and special methods of research: generalizations and scientific abstraction (when opening the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the investigated problems); historical and logical (for conducting research of the field of scientists on the necessity of state intervention in the activity of the subjects of state administration); extrapolation (in determining the possibility of implementing existing world experience into the domestic practice); spatial (in the process of revealing national peculiarities of providing state support to economic entities); the graphical method of visualization (to clearly show the trends in the state support of domestic economic entities), econometric modeling (to clarify the casualty of budget support volumes with targets). Results of work. The paper shows that the main goals that state aid should aim at are to correct «market mechanism failures»: positive externalities, inefficient competition; public goods; unemployment. On the basis of the analysis of the effectiveness of state aid, it is concluded that the amount of budget expenditures on research funding and infrastructure development have a positive impact on economic development. In contrast, promoting full employment by providing budget support to producers is not effective enough. Scope of application of results: general government. Conclusions. Provision of state support for correcting the failures of the market mechanism is appropriate and justified as it ensures the achievement of the purpose of existence and activity of the state as an entity created to ensure the efficient development of the economy and satisfy the ...

"The book uses distance functions, a generalization of the more familiar production function, as the theoretical and empirical tools to construct Lerner indexes of market power in both the input and output markets. The use of distance functions enables us to explicitly account for the effects of firm inefficiency and price markups in the evaluation of market power. The book focusses on the theory and provides a menu of applications to construct measures of firm efficiency and market power in the financial and public sectors."

Reconciling higher freshwater demands with finite freshwater resources remains one of the great policy dilemmas. Given that crop irrigation constitutes 70% of global water extractions, which contributes up to 40% of globally available calories (1), governments often support increases in irrigation efficiency (IE), promoting advanced technologies to improve the "crop per drop." This provides private benefits to irrigators and is justified, in part, on the premise that increases in IE "save" water for reallocation to other sectors, including cities and the environment. Yet substantial scientific evidence (2) has long shown that increased IE rarely delivers the presumed public-good benefits of increased water availability. Decision-makers typically have not known or understood the importance of basin-scale water accounting or of the behavioral responses of irrigators to subsidies to increase IE. We show that to mitigate global water scarcity, increases in IE must be accompanied by robust water accounting and measurements, a cap on extractions, an assessment of uncertainties, the valuation of trade-offs, and a better understanding of the incentives and behavior of irrigators.

I: Methodology -- The Scientific Work of Gerhard Tintner -- Econometrics Needs a History: Two Cases of Conspicuous Neglect -- II: Planning Models -- Energy Pricing in a Welfare Framework: Issues in Equity, Efficiency and Exhaustibility -- Foreign Aid, Economic Development and Income Distribution: Some Inferences from a CGE Model for Egypt -- III: Analysis of Efficiency -- The Active Approach of Stochastic Optimization with New Applications -- Efficient Portfolios: Risk Shares and Monetary Policy -- Extremal Principle Solutions of Games in Characteristic Function Form: Core, Chebychev and Shapley Value Generalizations -- Econometric Estimation of Decision Models under Uncertainty -- On Estimating the Elasticity of Factor Substitution by Nonlinear Least Squares -- Recent Nonparametric Measures of Productive Efficiency.