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We study bidder bahavior and performance in 53 main refinancing operations (repo auctions) of the European Central Bank (ECB). The data set starts with the first auctions after the ECB changed from fixed rate tenders to variable rate tenders. We find that private information and the winnner's...
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We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub …, distribution, and stabilisation. The input and output efficiency of public sectors across countries is then measured via a non …
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investment, innovation). The paper addresses the approaches used to assess the performance and efficiency of public spending, and …
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In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in … emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …
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The world recently experienced several rare events with disastrous consequences: the global financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, and the Fukushima nuclear accident. These events have in common that key decision-makers were unprepared for them, which aggravated these events. We...
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study the trade-off between efficiency (proxied by real GDP per capita and TFP) and equity (proxied by the labour share of …
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economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis …
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tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition … based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator …
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frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods …
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We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …
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