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Banking Reforms, Access to Credit, and Misallocation
Chakraborty, Pavel; Mitra, Nirvana - 2021
New liberalization policies are rapidly globalizing financial services in developing countries, but there is little or no microeconomic evidence on the impact of banking reforms on the real economy. We examine the impact of a banking sector reform characterized by the introduction of new...
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The cost-efficiency of French banks
Jimborean, Ramona; Brack, Estelle - 2010
The paper addresses the issue of French banks efficiency, compared to their homologous from Europe and the United …
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Banking Operational Cost in the Balkan Region under a Quadratic Loss Function
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - 2010
Europe (SEE) over the period 1998-2005. Results show that operating performance is positively related to loan quality and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015222876
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On the determinants of banking efficiency in four new European Union Member States: the impact of structural reforms
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel; Koutsomanoli-Filippaki, Anastasia; … - 2010
We employ the stochastic frontier methodology and estimate alternative profit efficiency in the banking industry of four new European Union Member States, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic, over the period 1999-2003. Our results show that structural reforms in...
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Assessing output and productivity growth in the banking industry
Athanasoglou, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Evangelia; … - 2008
This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990 … estimation of output and inputs and the estimation of productivity (partial and total factor) we relied on the index number … method (Tornqvist index). Additionally, we considered the effect of labor quality on banks’ productivity and using a growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227622
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The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
Fu, Dongfeng; Pammolli, Fabio; Buldyrev, Sergey V.; … - 2005
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that it is exponential in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in...
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A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: II. Mathematical Treatment
Buldyrev, Sergey V.; Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo; … - 2006
We present a preferential attachment growth model to obtain the distribution P(K) of number of units K in the classes which may represent business firms or other socio-economic entities. We found that P(K) is described in its central part by a power law with an exponent φ = 2+b/(1−b) which...
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Productivity dispersion and its determinants: the role of import penetration
Daniela, Maggioni - 2011
account of the regional heterogeneity computing the productivity dispersion indicator within each sector and regional macro … the productivity heterogeneity across firms, while an opposing impact is detected for the exposure to trade with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230926
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Multifactor productivity growth enhancers across industries and countries: Firm-level evidence
Nakatani, Ryota - 2024
Multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is an imperative economic engine. MFP dynamism across five advanced and seven … global financial crisis. The greater the productivity effect of intangible assets is, the higher a country’s per …
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Role of Quality Management in Pharmaceutical Development: Evidence from Islamabad and Lahore
Rana, Tariq Mehmood; Salaria, M. Rashid; Herani, Gobind M. - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate the employee’s perceptions of the impact, of Total Quality Management (TQM), on their roles within the organization and how they perceived the effectiveness of the quality processes in Pakistan Pharmaceutical industry. The universe of this study was the...
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