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The Cost of Government and the Misuse of Public Assets
Prakash, Tej - 2000
This paper deals with efficiency in the public sector. It argues that the habit of relating efficiency to public … could be used for several purposes including increasing public sector efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400238
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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity
International Monetary Fund - 1998
or may not improve economic efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400822
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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency
Johnston, R. B. - 1995
economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395836
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Wholesale Payments and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity
Folkerts-Landau, D. F. I. - 1997
Properly designed wholesale payments system can make a significant contribution to enhancing market discipline in the financial sector, reducing the risk of systemic disturbance and permitting a less extensive safety net for financial institutions. The objective of these reforms has been to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403300
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A Noteon Debt Reduction and Echonomic Efficiency
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This note examines the efficiency gains that might result from market-based debt reduction and alternative uses of … government investment or consumption. Given considerable uncertainty about the efficiency returns of alternative uses of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396332
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International R and D Spillovers and Institutions
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2008
The empirical analysis in ""International R&D Spillovers"" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400689
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Subnational Public Financial Management : Institutions and Macroeconomic Considerations
Albino-War, Maria - 2005
subnational governments, critical elements in ensuring good governance and efficiency of decentralized administrations. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400743
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Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2006
We analyze the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions, such as contract enforcement, rule of law, and property rights. In our model, firms differ in their preferences for institutional quality, which is determined endogenously in a political economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402396
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Institutional Inertia
Valderrama, Laura - 2009
We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402460
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Institutions, innovations, and Growth
Xu, Chenggang - 1999
gap. In the model proposed, economic growth is affected by the efficiency and riskiness of research and development (R …&D), which are endogenized through financial institutions. The theory and its results shed lights on the debate of convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403467