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International Co-Operative Agreements in Hungary in the Mid-1990s : Evolution, Organisational Forms and Industry Characteristics
Havas, Attila - 2015
As the legislation on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Hungary has been probably the most liberal in Central and Eastern Europe since the mid-1980s, FDI is the primary form chosen by Western firms to enter the Hungarian market. The major channels of FDI include the privatisation of former...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010036
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Innovation creation and diffusion in a social network: an agent based approach
Lamieri, Marco; Ietri, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Market is not only the result of the behaviour of agents, as we can find other forms of contact and communication. Many of them are determined by proximity conditions in some kind of space: in this paper we pay a particular attention to relational space, that is the space determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787108
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UMTS broadband mobile technology is a reality – Confounding many expectations
Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Contrary to the negative public perception, third-generation (3G) broadband mobile telecommunication, aka UMTS, has become reality. UMTS networks have been rolled out above all in Central Europe. The take-up of UMTS differs sharply from one country to the next, though. The large differences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626835
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Contestability and collateral in credit markets with adverse selection
Cesaroni, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The work discusses a basic proposition in the theory of competition in markets with adverse selection (Bester, 1985). By working out the sequence of market transactions, we show that the effectiveness of collateral in avoiding equilibrium rationing depends on an assumption of uncontestability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008743001
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An empirical investigation of the effects of concentration on profitability among US banks
Fiona, Tregenna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank …-interest revenue, and reduce both interest and non-interest costs. Furthermore, concentration appears to depress bank deposit interest … rates and raise both lending rates and the interest rate spread. This suggests that bank concentration might have negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835748
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On the measurement of market power in the banking industry
Delis, Manthos D; Staikouras, Christos; Varlagas, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
statistical problems associated with the dynamic nature of bank-level data. The results suggest that both static methods provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836996
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Structure and Performance of Commercial Banks in Pakistan
Arby, Muhammad Farooq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Commercial banks undertake business of risk in an environment of asymmetric information. This is why, the industrial economists who are interested in theory of incomplete information and principal-agent framework have found the banking industry a promising field of research. There are number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837261
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Estructura de Mercado, Condiciones de Entrada y Número Óptimo de Bancos en el Sistema Bancario Boliviano: Una Aproximación de Indicadores de Concentración y Movilidad Intra-industr...
Gonzales-Martínez, Rolando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
competitiveness of the bank market, (2) to define conditions of entrance of new banks to the market, and (3) to establish a criterion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837421
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The determinants of net interest income in the Mexican banking system: an integrated model
Maudos, Joaquin; Solisa, Liliana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes net interest income in the Mexican banking system over the period 1993-2005. Taking as reference the seminal work by Ho and Saunders (1981) and subsequent extensions by other authors, our study models the net interest margin simultaneously including operating costs and...
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Testing for competition in the South African banking sector
Simbanegavi, Witness; Greenberg, Josh; Gwatidzo, Tendai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper employs the Panzar and Rosse (1987) and the Bresnahan models to determine the level of competition in the South African banking sector. This level of competition was tested during the period 1998 to 2008 for the Panzar and Rosse approach and from 1992 to 2008 for the Bresnahan model....
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