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Does public sector inefficiency constrain firm productivity : evidence from Italian provinces

Giordano, Raffaela; Lanau, Sergi; Tommasino, Pietro; … - 2015

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

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Determinants of banks' net interest margins in Honduras

Nassar, Koffie Ben; Martinez, Edder; Pineda, Anabel - 2014

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Determinants of Banks' Net Interest Margins in Honduras

Ben Nassar, Koffie - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of banks’ net interest margins in Honduras during 1998 to 2013-a period characterized by increasing banks’ net interest margins, foreign bank participation and consolidation. In line with findings in the previous literature, we find that operating costs...

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Trade and inclusive growth

Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...

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Can reform waves turn the tide? : some case studies using the synthetic control method

Adhikari, Bibek; Duval, Romain; Hu, Bingjie; Loungani, … - 2016

A number of advanced economies carried out a sequence of extensive reforms of their labor and product markets in the … of reforms, those of New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Ireland and Netherlands in the 1990s, and the labor market reforms …