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International trade finance, a report on the methods of trade finance used in Europe for cross-border trade

Hardwick, Philip; Ashton, J.K. - 1998

International trade finance is concerned broadly with all aspects of the post-production financing of international trade transactions. Thus, it includes methods of international settlement, the documentation of international trade, risk management techniques, short- and long-term lending and...

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Total factor productivity growth and technical change in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry

Ashton, J.K. - 2000

The characteristic of total factor productivity growth and technical change in the water and sewerage industry of England and Wales are examined within this article. Total factor productivity growth, technical change and the components of technical change are quantified using a time trend model....

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Market definition of the UK deposit saving account market

Ashton, J.K. - 2001

This study examines the definition of the UK deposit savings account market. A testing procedure is used to ascertain if the law of one price and the assumption of a unified national market may or may not be rejected. The existing UK and European literature on the definition of financial...

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Productivity, efficiency and competition of UK depository institutions.

Ashton, J.K. - 1999

In the thesis, a number of cost characteristics of the UK building society and retail banking sectors are estimated using econometric techniques. The cost characteristics considered broadly fall into the three areas of productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. The study was undertaken with...

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Cost Efficiency Characteristics of British Retail Banks

Ashton, J.K. - In: The Service Industries Journal 21 (2001) 2, pp. 159-174

In this article the cost efficiency characteristics of the British retail-banking sector are investigated. Distribution-free cost efficiency, economies of scale, economies of scope and cost complementarities are all measured. The study employs a one way fixed effects model with a translog...

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Cost Efficiency Characteristics of British Retail Banks

Ashton, J.K. - In: The Service Industries Journal 21 (2001) 2, pp. 159-174

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A Test of Perfect Competition in the UK Retail-banking Deposit Market

Ashton, J.K. - In: The Service Industries Journal 21 (2001) 4, pp. 119-132

This article presents a test for perfect competition in the deposit market of the UK retail-banking sector. The model employed draws from the New Economic Industrial Organisation (NEIO) technique forwarded by Hannan and Liang [1993]. The test is applied to a sample of eight UK retail banks...

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