beyond which further increases in leverage could lower TFP growth. -- Excess leverage ; bank efficiency ; market …

, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we found that, on average, around 11 percent of the … improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain was higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for …

Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and … and energy standards on the energy efficiency of SMEs in North Africa and suggests actions and policies to encourage … structural transformation and ensure better energy efficiency. …

data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we …