imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export side, we find a positive effect of exports on the industry … wage premium. The results also show that import penetration from low–income countries has a significant and negative impact …

In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in … emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …

of the euro area, we estimate intra- and extra-euro area import demand functions and impose various restrictions within …

The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms’ profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro … area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import … manufacturing sector, especially for imports coming from China and Russia. However, similar negative effects are also estimated for …

based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …

This paper aims at showing heterogeneity in the degree of exchange rate pass-through to import prices in major advanced …