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Efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the WAEMU countries: A stochastic frontier production analysis.

BABATOUNDE, Latoundji Alain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates the efficacy and technical efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the productive process of the WAEMU economies over the period 2002-2007 using a stochastic frontier production model with technical inefficiency effects. Four specific variables of the financial...

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Efficiency in the Japanese trust banking industry: A stochastic distance function approach

Yamori, Nobuyoshi; Harimaya, Kozo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

represented the financial liberalization at that time. The traditional theory expects that allowing new entry makes market more … liberalization made Japanese banks more efficient. The results indicate that the traditional domestic trust banks possess a technical … banks to be more efficient now than in the pre-liberalization period. …

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Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

India brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. Structural changes in terms of employment of labour …

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Bank competition, institutional strength and financial reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the EU

Delis, Manthos D; Pagoulatos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Abstract Following their EU15 counterparts, the banking systems of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries underwent extensive reform since the 1990s. In this paper we estimate the degree of bank market power during the periods of financial reform in each European country, and subsequently...

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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit

Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...

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Bank competition and financial (in)stability in Europe: A sensitivity analysis

Samantas, Ioannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study examines the effect of market structure variables on stability subject to regulation and supervision variables. The Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) is employed over a sample of banks operating within the enlarged European Union during the period 2002-2010. The results show an inverse...

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The Relationship between Risk-Return Trade-Off and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from Malaysia Banking Sector

Sufian, Fadzlan; Majid, Abdul; Zulkhibri, Muhamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The non-parametric frontier approach, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to investigate the efficiency of banking stocks which are traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). Unlike the earlier studies which use balance sheet and income statements data, the paper uses market data...

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L’efficienza del sistema bancario italiano dal 2006 al 2010. Un’applicazione delle frontiere stocastiche.

Bonanno, Graziella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The objective of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the Italian Banking System over the period 2006-2010. By applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) to a panel of 700 banks, the analysis is based on the joint estimation of a cost function and an efficiency equation (Battese and...

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On the estimation of marginal cost

Delis, Manthos D; Iosifidi, Maria; Tsionas, Efthymios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article proposes a general empirical method for the estimation of marginal cost of individual firms. The new method employs the smooth coefficient model, which has a number of appealing features when applied to cost functions. The empirical analysis uses data from a unique sample from which...

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The impact of electricity constraints on access to finance: A firm-level study

Nakhoda, Aadil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Firms that report insufficient electricity from the public grid are likely to experience higher constraints on access to finance. The lack of availability of electricity will translate to greater production delays and lower expected profits. Consequently, it will have an adverse impact on the...

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