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Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods
LEON, Florian - HAL - 2014
Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …
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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011
competition, are also found to be more sensitive to infrastructure endowment. This result can be extended to the Chemical industry …
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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
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Identification of Segments of European Banks with a Latent Class Frontier Model
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2007
This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data techniques. A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically...
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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...
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Health Insurance Reform and Efficiency of Township Hospitals in Rural China: An Analysis from Survey Data
Audibert, Martine; Huang, Xiao Xian; Mathonnat, Jacky; … - HAL - 2012
In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of...
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Identification of Segments of French Urban Public Transport with a Latent Class Frontier Model
Roy, William; Barros, Carlos - HAL - 2007
This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data. The latent class frontier model is used allowing the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant...
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Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms' productive inefficiency?
Chaffai, Mohamed; Kinda, Tidiane; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011
Production frontiers and inefficiency determinants are estimated by using stochastic models. Textile manufacturing is considered for a sample of eight developing countries encompassing about one thousand firms. We find that the most influential individual inefficiency determinants relate to...
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Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?
Arcand, Jean-Louis; Borodak, Daniela - HAL - 2011
This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of Moldovan small-holders using the four-step Data...
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