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The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...
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In this Paper we study the impact of credit risk transfer (CRT) on the stability and the efficiency of a financial …
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Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …
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shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …
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industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across … industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels … between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies …
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market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical … support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper is to investigate the link between competition and efficiency for the … production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to scale due …
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The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones. We review possible sources of this puzzle and conclude that it reflects a combination of factors, including substitution bias in consumption, reliance on urban prices which we estimate...
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Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by sustained export price increases (trading gains) rather...
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Index tracking requires building a portfolio of stocks (a replica) whose behaviour is as close as possible to that of a given stock index. Typically, much fewer stocks should appear in the replica than in the index, and there should be no low frequency (persistent) components in the tracking...
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This paper analyzes identification conditions, and proposes an estimator, for a dynamic factor model where the idiosyncratic components are allowed to be mutually non-orthogonal. This model, which we call the generalized dynamic factor model, is novel to the literature, and generalizes the...
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