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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009
The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298779
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - Banca d'Italia - 2009
The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459744
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009
The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082778
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Do Technology and Efficiency Differences Determine Productivity?
Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2011
This paper investigates the forces driving output growth, namely technological, efficiency, and input changes, in 80 countries over the period 1970-2000. Relevant past studies typically assume that: (i) countries use resources efficiently, and (ii) the underlying production technology is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714412
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The Cost Efficiency of German Banks : A Comparison of Sfa and DEA
Fiorentino, Elisabetta - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989303
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Towards a political economy of industrial organization: empirical regularities from deregulation
Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2001
understanding the causes and effects of deregulation using data provided by the OECD. In particular, we address two interrelated …) if so, what does this imply in terms of the policy incidence of deregulation. Our results indicate that political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278115
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Towards a Political Economy of Industrial Organization: Empirical Regularities from Deregulation
Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - Abteilung "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und industrieller … - 2001
understanding the causes and effects of deregulation using data provided by the OECD. In particular, we address two interrelated …) if so, what does this imply in terms of the policy incidence of deregulation. Our results indicate that political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772914
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Bank bailouts, interventions, and moral hazard
Dam, Lammertjan; Koetter, Michael - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011
To test if safety nets create moral hazard in the banking industry, we develop a simultaneous structural two-equations model that specifies the probability of a bailout and banks' risk taking.We identify the effect of expected bailout probabilities on risk taking using exclusion restrictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323135
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Gesundheitsforschung am DIW Berlin
Duso, Tomaso; Haan, Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 14, pp. 291-293
The health system and the various healthcare markets are characterized by a number of special features requiring a high degree of government regulation. Giving all sections of the population access to healthcare services, and doing this cost-effectively and affordably, is a political challenge...
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The welfare impact of parallel imports: A structural approach applied to the German market for oral anti-diabetics
Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...
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