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Bank efficiency in the enlarged European Union

Holló, Dániel; Nagy, Márton - 2006

This paper aims to estimate bank efficiency differences across member states of the European Union and tries to explain their causes. We show on an empirical basis that the level and spread of bank efficiency in the EU and their changes are significantly determined by characteristics of...

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Mind the gap - International comparison of cyclical adjustment of the budget

Kiss, Gábor P.; Vadas, Gábor - 2005

Cyclically adjusted budget balance (CAB) is a widely cited and widely used concept in the evaluation of fiscal situations. The key idea behind it involves the identification of potential levels of economic variables. There are two recently used methods: the aggregate approach and the...

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The Curse Of Natural Resources In The Transition Economies

Kronenberg, Tobias - 2002

economic growth thereafter. The oil-rich economies of Eastern Europe and Asia have been less successful. This paper shows that … a large part of the variation in growth rates among the transition economies can be attributed to the curse of natural … abundance and economic growth. Among the transition economies the prime reason for the curse of natural resource is corruption …

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Rural water suppliers and efficiency: Empirical evidence from East and West Germany

Sauer, Johannes - 2004

This discussion paper attempts the investigation of inefficiency with respect to water suppliers in rural areas of East and West Germany. This is done by using a nonradial measure of input-specific allocative inefficiency based on the demand system derived from a flexible cost function for the...

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Labour productivity and rice production in Bangladesh

Selim, Sheikh - 2010

In this paper we examine the significance of labour productivity and use of inputs in explaining technical efficiency of rice production in Bangladesh. We find that higher labour productivity can stimulate high efficiency gains, but increased use of inputs (except land) induces negative marginal...

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Monetary policy before and after the euro: Evidence from Greece

Arghyrou, Michael G. - 2006

We model Greek monetary policy in the 1990s and use our findings to address two interrelated questions. First, how was monetary policy conducted in the 1990s so that the hitherto highest-inflation EU country managed to join the euro by 2001? Second, how compatible is the current ECB monetary...

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Policy reforms and incentives in rice production in Bangladesh

Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima - 2007

We estimate an institutional production function to capture incentive induced growth in total factor productivity (TFP …

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Intra-industry Trade between European Union and Transition Economies: Does Income Distribution Matter?

Gabrisch, Hubert; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2002

EU-TE trade is increasingly characterized by intra-industry trade. For some countries (Czech Republic), the share of intra-industry trade in total trade with the EU approaches 60 percent. The decomposition of intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical shares reveals overwhelming vertical...

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Presumptive income taxation : administrative, efficiency, and equity aspects

Tanzi, Vito; Casanegra de Jantscher, Milka - 1987

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Estimation of regression coefficients

Alam, Khursheed; Hawkes, James S. - In: Scandinavian journal of statistics : SJS ; theory and … 5 (1978) 3, pp. 169-176

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