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or macroeconomic stabilisation. However, taxes may involve a negative impact on economic efficiency by distorting agents … particular, available analytical tools for the measurement of the efficiency of fiscal policies, in terms of the achievement of …
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countries. This paper provides evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency of health care … efficiency levels of health care systems. The findings are, however, highly sensitive to the efficiency-estimation methodology …
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of a firm's performance. Two alternative definitions of efficiency are proposed: relative productivity and profitability … not a determinant of efficiency and that other factors, in particular, the degree of competition, seem to have a positive …
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The paper warns about the potential efficiency losses associated with low business bankruptcy rates (number of firms … argument, analysed with an incomplete contracts model à la Bolton and Scharfstein (1996), is as follows. The low efficiency and …
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their effect on banks' risk, capital, efficiency and cost. We show that more stringency and more risk sensitivity in … regulation not always result in a trade off between efficiency and solvency: the impact depends on the area of national …
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For reasons of empirical tractability, analysis of cointegrated economic time series is often developed in a partial setting, in which a subset of variables is explictly modeled conditional on the rest. This approach yields valid inference only if the conditioning variables are weakly exogenous...
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates separately for men and women in the public and in the private sectors, and we take...
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This paper analyses the impact that firms' financial position has on investment decisions using panel data from a large sample of non-financial corporations (around 120,000 firms) in six euro area countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). The results indicate that...
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In this paper we study the evolution of income inequality for employees and self-employed workers. We highlight the importance of separately analyzing these different sources of income to gain a broader understanding of inequality. Using Spanish panel data on income and consumption from the ECPF...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the volatility of different types of capital inflows to emerging countries. After calculating a variable that proxies capital flows volatility, we study its possible causality relations with a set of explanatory variables by type of flow through a panel...
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