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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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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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Understanding Mexican High-tech Organizations: A Conceptualization Problem?

Ramirez, Jacob - HAL - 2001

This study investigates the differences between intensive technology and low-tech firms located in Mexico, focusing on … results show that while Mexico is not yet a fully developed technological country. Indeed, technologically intensive firms are … rare cases. Mexico is progressing rapidly towards a technologically developed country in some sectors. Moreover, Mexico …

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New insights into the selection process of Mexican migrants.What can we learn from discrepancies between intentions to migrate and actual moves to the U.S.?

Chort, Isabelle - HAL - 2012

local wages. Mots-clés : Migration, Roy model, migrant self-selection, subjective data, shocks, Mexico …

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Human capital investment and long-term poverty reduction in rural Mexico

Winters, Paul; Chiodi, Vera - HAL - 2008

By focusing on human capital investment, the Mexican Oportunidades program will influence the economic choices of the rural poor. To understand how beneficiaries may alter their behavior as a result of this intervention, this paper uses administrative data to analyze the economic activities of...

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