Showing 1 - 10 of 20
In the United States credit unions are not-for-profit cooperative financial institutions, owned by and operated for the benefit of their members. Being part of a cooperative movement enhances the likelihood that credit unions will share performance-enhancing ideas, for the benefit of weak credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512154
The dramatic rise in bank failures over the last decade has led to a search for leading indicators so that costly bailouts might be avoided. While the quality of a bank's management is generally acknowledged to be a key contributor to institutional collapse, it is usually excluded from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512155
-firm variation. Moreover, inspired by recent developments in the production function estimation literature, we address the problem of … endogeneity of the age/gender mix, using a structural production function estimator (Olley & Pakes, 1996; Levinsohn & Petrin, 2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917407
-related differences from within-firm variation. Moreover, inspired by recent developments in the production function estimation literature …, we address the problem of endogeneity of the gender mix using a structural production function estimator (Olley & Pakes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019029
The use of proxy variables to control for unobservables when estimating a production function has become increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350368
, in the case of Densification these costs are decreasing in city size. The interaction with water production costs is also … considered, showing that, in the case of Densification, scale economies in production are reinforced by density economies in … (including commuting) as well as production, so that both favour agglomeration. Accordingly, urban modelers should be cautious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074959
production function that is modified to reflect the heterogeneity of labour with workers of different age potentially diverging …-differences to deal with a potential time-invariant heterogeneity bias. Moreover, inspired by recent developments in the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551100
The duality between measures of economic and technical efficiency has been extensively studied in the productive efficiency analysis. This duality ensures a meaningful interpretation of technical efficiency as economic efficiency evaluated at the most favourable shadow prices. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540104
developments in the production function estimation literature, we address the problem of endogeneity in input choice using a … structural production function estimator (Levinsohn and Petrin, 2003). Our results suggest that there is no gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515819
Technical efficiency measure can be classified as either radial or nonradial. While the theoretical question of which is the better type of measure is unresolved, the radial measures enjoy much greater popularity than the nonradial measures in the empirical literature. To assess the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550117