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Determinants of firms' efficiency: Do innovations and finance constraints matter?the case of European SMEs
Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422081
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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes
Bonanno, Graziella - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402
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Can Central Bank Communication Help to Stabilise Inflation Expectations?
Jung, Alexander; Kühl, Patrick - 2021
This paper examines whether central bank communication stabilises euro area inflation expectations through the … visitors’ attention to its communication. We conduct several econometric tests with daily data to measure the impact of ECB … communication on the information demand of the public and ultimately on inflation expectations. Overall, this study shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227730
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Budget institutions and fiscal performance in Central and Eastern European countries
Gleich, Holger - 2003
This paper documents the modes of organization of the budget process in ten CEEC and examines the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604261
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When do countries implement structural reforms?
da Silva, Antonio Dias; Givone, Audrey; Sondermann, David - 2017
The objective of this paper is to investigate which factors - macroeconomic, policy - related or institutional - foster the implementation of structural reforms. To this objective, we look at episodes of structural reforms over three decades across 40 OECD and EU countries and link them to such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804393
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When Do Countries Implement Structural Reforms?
Dias da Silva, Antonio - 2017
The objective of this paper is to investigate which factors ‐ macroeconomic, policy‐related or institutional ‐ foster the implementation of structural reforms. To this objective, we look at episodes of structural reforms over three decades across 40 OECD and EU countries and link them to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953484
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Is there a single frontier in a single European banking market?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2006
This paper attempts to estimate comparable efficiency scores for European banks operating in the Single Market in the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604747
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Business groups as hierarchies of firms: determinants of vertical integration and performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - 2013
exploitation of knowledge as an input across the hierarchy and the associated communication costs. We relate these metrics to host …We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally … are in line with the theoretical framework of knowledge-based hierarchies developed by the literature, in which intangible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605599
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Mapping global value chains
De Backer, Koen; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2014
World trade and production are increasingly structured around “global value chains” (GVCs). The last years have witnessed a growing number of case studies describing at the product level how production is internationally fragmented, but there is little evidence at the aggregate level on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605722
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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance
Altomonte, Carlo - 2013
exploitation of knowledge as an input across the hierarchy and the associated communication costs. We relate these metrics to host …We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally … are in line with the theoretical framework of knowledge-based hierarchies developed by the literature, in which intangible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081466