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BANK EFFICIENCY, OWNERSHIP AND MARKET STRUCTUREWHY ARE INTEREST SPREADS SO HIGH IN UGANDA?

Beck, Thorsten; Hesse, Heiko - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2006

Using a unique bank-level dataset on the Ugandan banking system over theperiod 1999 to 2005, we explore the factors … banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables canexplain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads. Bank …-level characteristics, onthe other hand, such as bank size, operating costs, and composition of loan portfolio,explain a large proportion of …

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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT

Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...

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COMPARING SECTORAL PRODUCTIVITY ACROSS COUNTRIES

Glyn, Andrew - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004

Renewed interest in economic growth has encouraged studies of how different sectors have contributed to convergence trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate sector value added by the PPP exchange rate for GDP....

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