model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export … developments are relevant for short-run export dynamics particularly during more extreme stages of the business cycle. A …

export market and vice versa takes place in a smooth manner. Areas of weak reaction of exports to changes in domestic demand … constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of a smooth transition … regression model and find that domestic demand developments and uncertainty are relevant for short-run export dynamics …

This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … their superior scale efficiency. However, this superior efficiency did not necessarily result in superior profits. Our … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …

This study applies parametric distance functions to estimate the efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, and … subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model … efficiency of the profit-creation process. The market share of the incumbent banks acts as a barrier to entry to efficiency in …