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Is there a single frontier in a single European banking market?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2006
EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period … 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to assess the existence of a single and integrated European banking … market. We find evidence in favor of a single European banking market characterized by cost and profit meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604747
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Does Finance Bolster Superstar Companies? Banks, Venture Capital, and Firm Size in Local U.S. Markets
Popov, Alexander - 2009
bin of the firm size distribution has remained unaffected by banking sector developments, it has increased with venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605167
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Is There a Single Frontier in a Single European Banking Market?
Bos, Jaap W.B; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2021
EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period … 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to assess the existence of a single and integrated European banking … market. We find evidence in favor of a single European banking market characterized by cost and profit meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317337
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Sources of economic renewal: from the traditional firm to the knowledge firm
Rodriguez-Palenzuela, Diego - 2001
We build on the imperfection of intellectual property rights as the central motivation for the organization of firms. There are several characteristics specific to a theory of the firm grounded on the absence of intellectual property rights: monetary incentive schemes arise naturally as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604089
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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system
Manna, Michele - 2004
This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is … paper offers three main empirical conclusions. First, within the euro area the gap between the cross-border banking activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604346
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Stylised features of price setting behaviour in Portugal: 1992-2001
Dias, Mónica; Dias, Daniel; Neves, Pedro D. - 2004
This paper identifies the empirical stylized features of price setting behaviour in Portugal using the micro-datasets underlying the consumer and the producer price indexes. The main conclusions are the following: 1 in every 4 prices change each month; there is a considerable degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604378
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Price rigidity. Evidence from the French CPI micro-data
Baudry, Laurent; Le Bihan, Hervé; Sevestre, Patrick; … - 2004
Based upon a large fraction of the price records used for computing the French CPI, we document consumer price rigidity in France. We first provide a methodological discussion of issues involved in estimating average price duration with micro-data. The average duration of prices in the sectors...
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Price setting in France: new evidence from survey data
Loupias, Claire; Ricart, Roland - 2004
This paper reports the results of a survey conducted by the Banque de France during Winter 2003-2004 to investigate the price-setting behavior of French manufacturing companies. Prices are found to adjust infrequently; the median firm modifies its price only once a year. Price reviews are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604469
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Price-setting behaviour in Belgium: what can be learned from an ad hoc survey?
Aucremanne, Luc; Druant, Martine - 2005
This paper reports the results of an ad hoc survey on price-setting behaviour conducted in February 2004 among 2,000 Belgian firms. The reported results clearly deviate from a situation of perfect competition and show that firms have some market power. Pricing-to-market is applied by a majority...
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Financial integration and entrepreneurial activity: evidence from foreign bank entry in emerging markets
Giannetti, Mariassunta; Ongena, Steven - 2005
An extensive empirical literature has documented the positive growth effects of equity market liberalization. However, this line of research ignores the impact of financial integration on a category of firms crucial for economic development, i.e. the small entrepreneurial firms. This paper aims...
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