-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces …

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of … firms' decision making. The relatively high level of resource misallocation in India's formal manufacturing sector is well … interaction of labor market rigidities with informality which is a key feature of India's labor markets. Our results suggest that …

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity … productivity differences …

Most estimates of Indian manufacturing productivity find a slowdown in the 1990s. This has puzzled analysts, given that … points. This paper tests the hypothesis of the J curve of Productivity and Growth following major liberalization and finds it … result in negative effects on measured productivity …

greater competition and at liberalizing key aspects of economic activity. This paper investigates productivity trends in India … productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … about factor elasticities and the assumed structure of the production function; (ii) productivity growth for total …

This paper explores the causes of India''s productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic … of existing businesses rather than new entrants or consumers. A relatively small shift elicited a large productivity … response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in …

Using a panel of firm-level data, this paper examines the effects of India''s trade reforms in the early 1990s on firm … productivity in the manufacturing sector, focusing on the interaction between this policy shock and firm and environment … characteristics. The rapid and comprehensive tariff reductions-part of an IMF-supported adjustment program with India in 1991-allow us …