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The Allocation of Economic Capital in Opaque Financial Conglomerates
Mierzejewski, Fernando - 2009
The capital structure of firms that face restrictions on liquidity (i.e. that cannot hedge continuously) is affected by the agency costs and moral-hazard implicit in the contracts they establish with stockholders and customers. It is demonstrated in this paper that then an optimal level of...
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Measuring concentration in economic sectors by h-index and g-index
Bartolucci, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
approach is illustrated by an application to data coming from the bank sector in USA. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107848
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FORMS AND DIMENSIONS OF FOREIGN CAPITAL EXPANSION IN THE BANKING SECTOR OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Badulescu, Daniel; Bac, Dorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper deals with the foreign penetration in the capital of bank sector in the countries in Central and Eastern …, international and local claims of all banks reporting to Bank for International Settlements in relation with Central and Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621282
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Market Access Strategies in the EU Banking Sector - Obstacles and Benefits Towards an Integrated European Retail Market
Beckmann, Rainer - 2010
The integration process in the European banking sector considerably differs with regard to product types. Deep …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136603
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R&D investment, productivity and rates of return: A meta-analysis of the evidence on OECD firms and industries
Ugur, Mehmet; Guidi, Francesco; Solomon, Edna; Trushin, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly following the contributions of Zvi Griliches and others to microeconometric work in late 1970s and early 1980s. This study aims to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD...
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How Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty interact with International Trade? A Meta-Analysis Revisited
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Selmi, Refk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Several factors have been highlighted to explain the controversial effect of exchange rate uncertainty on international trade. However, the empirical evidence is rather mixed. The main focus of this paper is to reconcile the apparently conflicting results from 59 studies published between 1984...
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On the Sources of Heterogeneity in Banking Efficiency Literature
Aiello, Francesco; Bonanno, Graziella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the … lower levels of banking efficiency than nonparametric studies. This holds true even after controlling for the approach used … in selecting the inputs and outputs of the frontier. Secondly, we show that banking efficiency is highest when using the …
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Le calcul de la valeur statistique d'une vie humaine
Dionne, Georges; Lebeau, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Our society faces many risks that affect human life. Cost-benefit analysis is a very popular project-evaluation tool for reducing these social risks. The government has to set projects or regulations whose benefits will outweigh costs. It is quite easy to evaluate costs but how to evaluate the...
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Use renewables to be cleaner: Meta-analysis of the renewable energy consumption-economic growth nexus
Sebri, Maamar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The renewable energy consumption-economic growth nexus is a growing area of research over the last few years, emanating to mixed results. The aim of the current study is to quantitatively synthesise the empirical literature on the subject using the meta-analysis approach. In particular, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260717
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The income-elasticity of calories, macro and micro nutrients: What is the literature telling us?
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Shabnam, Nadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Food security and nutrition have become central to the policy agendas of governmental and non-governmental organizations due to their consequences on health and economic development. Changes in consumption patterns in response to price and income changes could impact on nutrient intake with...
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