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In a previous work, Forner and Marhuenda (2001) find that the contrarian strategy, thatis, the forming of a zero-investment portfolio that buys the stocks that have performed poorly inthe past (losers) and sells those that have performed well (winners), does not yield abnormallypositive returns...
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versus efficiency, presenting as its main contribution the use of a direct measurement of efficiency. This measurement is … furthermore, the results allow us to reject in most cases the pure hypothesis of efficiency, as although efficiency does …
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adjustments for risk are important in the case of profit efficiency but not in the case of cost efficiency. La implantación del … new markets. The aim of this paper is to analyse the efficiency and the credit risk of the banks of the most important …
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applying for grants. Finally, the third objective of this study, is to evaluate the efficiency of the Spanish scholarship … aids to study presents serious limitations on equity as well as on efficiency. Los objetivos de este trabajo son, en primer …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the efficiency of the travel agencies operatingin Spain, and to examine the … determining factors of such efficiency, in terms of verticalintegration, market concentration, size and performance. The … methodology employed is based on different techniques for the measurement of the efficiency (stochastic frontier production …
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The objective of this study is to analyze the macroeconomic performance of 16 Ibero- American countries over the period 1980- 199 1. Macroeconomic performance is defined as the ability of a country's macroeconomic managers to provide four welfare-enhancing economic services to their citizens: a...
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This paper examines the reaction of the Spanish continuous market to the announcement of securitisation operations by listed banks in the period 1993-2003. Results indicate the existence of positive and significant abnormal returns on the day immediately following the announcement date. The...
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contribution to the growth of labor productivity of technical progress, of changes in efficiency, and of the accumulation of inputs …
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Suppose that a group of individuals owns collectively a technology which produces a consumptiongood by means of a (possibly heterogeneous) input. A sharing rule associates input contributionswith a vector of consumptions that are technologically feasible. We show that the set of...
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We characterize the incentive compatible allocation that maximizes the expected social surplus in a single-unit sale when the efficient allocation is not implementable. This allocation may involve no selling when it is efficient to sell. We then show that the English auction always implements...
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