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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?

Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640

The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...

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Estimating efficiency and productivity change in European retail sector (1998–2006)

Moreno, Justo de Jorge - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 4, pp. 412-436

In this paper, we use recent robust non-parametric techniques in the European retail sector. By means of a database of firms in the European retail sector (four-digit NACE 5211) in five European countries over the period 1998–2006, we apply data envelopment analysis and compare the analysis...

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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade

Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148

We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countriesâ€™ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...

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The contradictions of state regulation of the banking sector: the challenge of moral hazard during the sub-prime mortgage crisis

Doyran, Mine Aysen - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 1, pp. 72-92

The sub-prime crisis began in mid-2007 as a bursting of the US housing market bubble and became a truly global meltdown in 2008. Renewed instability in financial markets precipitated awareness of how policy makers must react to systemic failures. This paper discusses the primary policy issues...

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Efficiency of the banking governance: shareholder vs. stakeholder approach: application on the Tunisian quoted banks

Bouaziz, Wissem; Bouri, Abdelfettah - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 2, pp. 192-206

The aim of this paper is to construct simulations of indexes of the banking governance efficiency. We distinguish the …

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Financial crisis and the real estate market in Greece: the impact on bank stock prices

Apergis, Nicholas - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 5, pp. 530-539

This study investigates the relationship between the stock mean returns of banking institutions and the returns of real … estate investment trusts (REITs) as well as of their volatility between them for the Greek banking system using the … between different types of assets. The results show that the returns of REITs affect the stock returns of banking institutions …

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Determinants of repayment and overdues in agricultural sector

Gandhimathi, S. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 5, pp. 590-602

The Agricultural Credit Review Committee (1989) headed by Khusro identified several weaknesses in the rural credit delivery system which included poor loan recovery and overdues. In this context, the economic survey (1992-1993) had noted that 'despite phenomenal increase in overall agricultural...

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Productivity, efficiency and technological change in banking: empirical evidence from the Chinese banking sector

Sufian, Fadzlan - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 5, pp. 427-445

findings suggest that the China's banking sector has exhibited productivity progress attributed to the increase in efficiency …

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The market for skilled labour and the trade cycle

Lewis, Phil - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 468-477

Although experiencing trade cycles, Australia is almost unique in maintaining 20 years of positive economic growth and has survived the global financial crisis relatively unscathed. The economic boom concentrated attention on skill shortages in Australia and their role in preventing the economy...

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EMU's flawed economic constitution: macroeconomic policy disabled

Martin, Andrew - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 1/2, pp. 60-75

EMU's design is seriously flawed. Monetary union was established without political union, creating a single eurozone economy that cannot be governed with the combination of macroeconomic policy instruments that modern national governments have. Its exceptionally independent central bank, the...

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