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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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A new estimation of the size of informal economy using monetary and full expenditures in a complete demand system

Gunes, Armagan Tuna Aktuna; Starzec, Christophe; … - HAL - 2013

We use the demand system approach to estimate the size of informal economy in Turkey following the methodology based on the analysis of the individual consumption behaviour proposed by Pissarides, Weber (1989), Lyssiotou et al. (2004), and Fortin et al. (2009). We extend this method by taking...

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Polish Households' behavior in the Regular and Informal Economies

Gardes, François; Starzec, Christophe - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes characteristics of the informal economy in Poland in the context of transition, using a specific survey carried out in the framework of the classic Labour Force Survey, conducted by the Polish National Statistical office (GUS), in 1995. The participation probabilities of...

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Presidential elections and the manipulation of exam success rate in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ebeke, Christian; Etoundi, Mireille Ntsama - HAL - 2011

This paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the months prior to the occurrence of the presidential elections. It hypothesizes that the incumbent is tempted to increase the exam success rate to retain a form of social cohesion and to 'buy' votes. A...

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The Rise of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: its Ambiguous Economic Impacts

Sindzingre, Nicole Alice - HAL - 2011

The paper analyses the economic relationships between China and Sub-Saharan African countries, including original contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike the 'traditional' partners of Sub-Saharan...

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Accounting for the effects of AIDS on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou - HAL - 2011

In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we precisely account for the effects of the epidemic on income per capita through human and physical capital accumulations, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the...

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Does malaria control impact education? A study of the Global Fund in Africa

Kuecken, Maria; Thuilliez, Josselin; Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2014

We examine the middle-run eff ects of the Global Fund's malaria control programs on the educational attainment of primary schoolchildren in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we exploit geographic variation in pre-campaign malaria prevalence (malaria ecology) and variation...

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Refining opportunity cost estimates of not adopting GM cotton : An application in seven sub-saharan african countries

Bouet, Antoine; Gruere, Guillaume - HAL - 2010

A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a genetically-modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina- Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is adopted in other countries. Our model uniquely employs...

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Are There Myths on Road Impact and Transport in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Beuran, Monica; Gachassin, Marie Castaing; Raballand, Gaël - HAL - 2013

As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only few of these countries have actually ammended their investments strategy. In many cases, there seems to be a preference for a status quo that can easily be explained by political...

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Does malaria control impact education? A study of the Global Fund in Africa

Kuecken, Maria; Thuilliez, Josselin; Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2013

We examine the middle-run effects of the Global Fund's malaria control programs on the educational attainment of primary schoolchildren in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we exploit geographic variation in pre-campaign malaria prevalence (malaria ecology) and variation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025920

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