industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

In this paper, we make an analysis of productivity’s gaps in WAEMU’s banks; the intra-organizational strategy is … privileged. For that purpose, we study the progression of the global factors productivity using the Data Envelopment Analysis …. We find that the global productivity of the factors remained relatively unchanged but that globally the X efficiency of …

With a sample of 354 U.S. large bank holding companies, this paper investigates the determination of financial distress …

This paper aims to answer the following question: what is (are) the cause(s) of the severe reduction in bank credits in … period an ultra–expansionary monetary policy has been implemented by the Bank of Japan. A theoretical lending–supply model is …

-tailed distributions; (ii) simple indicators often outperformed more complex metrics in predicting individual bank failure during the … global financial crisis; (iii) when combining information from different indicators to predict bank failure, “fast …

banking crises. Recent findings show that government intervention results in only a small proportion of bank recoveries. This …

This paper is one of the first attempts to conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between bank capital …, securitization and bank risk-taking in a context of the rapid growth in off-balance-sheet activities. The data come from the Canadian … securitization and bank risk-taking. Profit-risk measure is more sensitive than loss-risk measure to the variation in securitization …