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establish an accurate risk-return ratio. The efficiency of banks involved in the shipping industry is particularly important … shipping companies. This paper presents an effort to assess the shipping banks’ efficiency, and the determination of those … factors which affect their technical efficiency, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of this …
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This study aimed to test five fundamental factors (growth, profitability, leverage, liquidity, and efficiency) and two … industries. Earning per share was the dominant influence variable in six industries, where profitability factors in farming …
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success? Focusing on the Big Bang’s stated objectives of promoting profitability and efficiency, this study examines the … profitability and efficiency declines on the whole, and the main targets of the deregulation, the big city, trust and long …-term credit banks, exhibit statistically significantly lower profitability and efficiency than their smaller counterparts. …
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This study contributes to the understanding of the effects of FDI by illustrating that social networks affect technological learning in the Costa Rican ICT cluster in ways that the literature on technological capabilities failed to capture. It is based on extensive qualitative evidence collected...
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The paper looks at the trends of India's high Technology trade vis-a-vis other countries
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This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and...
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This paper examines complementarities and potentialities in merchandise trade in general and high technology trade in particular between India and Russia. In this context, we have also looked at the complementarities for bilateral transfer of investment, technology and skills. The analysis shows...
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This paper analyzes a source of financing for commodity producers known as a streaming loan, where the producer makes periodic payments in proportion to their level of production. Streaming loans functions like a cropshare contract, whereas fixed rate debt is like a wage contract. Thus,...
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’s profitability in the textile sector of Pakistan. WCM plays an important role in firm’s financial management decisions. An optimal … WCM is expected to contribute positively to the creation of firm’s value and enhancement of its profitability. Working … variables are also used to investigate their effect on profitability (net income). A sample size of 55 textile companies in …
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profitability. We find that the relation between customer concentration and firm profitability is more complex than recent … find a different result for younger, less profitable firms where customer concentration impairs firm profitability and … significantly increases distress risk. Thus, the relation between customer-base concentration and profitability is non-linear; it is …
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