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  1. Article

    Introduction

    Subal C. Kumbhakar, Robin Sickles, Hung-Jen Wang in Empirical Economics (2023)

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    Article

    Public subsidies and innovation: a doubly robust machine learning approach leveraging deep neural networks

    Economic growth is crucial to improve standards of living, prosperity, and welfare. R &D and knowledge spillovers can offset the diminishing returns to physical capital (machines and labor) and drive long-run ...

    Kerda Varaku, Robin Sickles in Empirical Economics (2023)

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    The agency problem revisited: a structural analysis of managerial productivity and CEO compensation in large US commercial banks

    The paper analyzes performance, incentives, and the inefficiencies that may arise due to agency problems and market power using a newly developed panel of large US commercial banks that have too-big-to-fail na...

    Shasha Liu, Robin Sickles in Empirical Economics (2021)

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    Reference Work Entry In depth

    Energy Economics

    Energy economics studies energy resources and energy commodities. It includes forces motivating firms and consumers to supply, convert, transport, use energy resource; market and regulatory structures; distrib...

    Robin Sickles, Hillard G. Huntington in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2018)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

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    Analyzing Bank Efficiency: Are “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks Efficient?

    The recent financial crisis has given rise to a re-examination by regulators and academics of the conventional wisdom regarding the implications of the spectacular growth of the financial sector of the economy...

    Hulusi Inanoglu, Michael Jacobs Jr. in The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Mode… (2016)

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    The role of self-reporting bias in health, mental health and labor force participation: a descriptive analysis

    Previous research on male subjects has conjectured that subjective self-reports of health status may lead to an upward bias in the estimated effect of health on labor force participation because subjects who a...

    Justin Leroux, John A. Rizzo, Robin Sickles in Empirical Economics (2012)

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    eBay in the Economic Literature: Analysis of an Auction Marketplace

    This survey brings together theoretical and empirical questions that have been addressed in the economic literature on eBay, focusing on understanding the behavior of buyers and sellers. We discuss several puz...

    Kevin Hasker, Robin Sickles in Review of Industrial Organization (2010)

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    Living Reference Work Entry In depth

    Energy Economics

    Energy economics studies energy resources and energy commodities. It includes forces motivating firms and consumers to supply, convert, transport, use energy resource; market and regulatory structures; distrib...

    Robin Sickles, Hillard G. Huntington in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

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    Reference Work Entry At a glance

    Energy Economics

    Energy is crucial to the economic progress and social development of nations. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed but its form can be changed. Energy comes from the physical environment and ultimately ...

    Robin Sickles in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)

  11. Article

    Christos J. Pantzios 1963–2005

    Spiro E. Stefanou, David B. Audretsch, Robin Sickles in Journal of Productivity Analysis (2006)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Testing for Aggregation Bias in Efficiency Measurement

    It is common practice to aggregate inputs prior to estimating the structure of production technology. It is of interest, therefore to have some idea of the impact of such aggregation on the resulting inference...

    C. A. Knox Lovell, Asani Sarkar, Robin Sickles in Measurement in Economics (1988)