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The Financial and Operating Performance ofPrivatized Firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firmsthat were either partly or fully privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two differentmethods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized firms. First,accounting data prior to and after...
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Price Hedonics: A Critical Review
Hulten, Charles R. - University of Maryland <College Park, Md.> / Department … - 2003
[...]These political considerations may seem tangential to thesubject of price hedonics, but the events following fromGreenspan’s remark have linked the two issues. First, theSenate Finance Committee consulted a panel of experts, andthat panel reached a consensus supporting...
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The Determinants of Success in the New Financial Services Environment: Now That Firms Can Do Everything, What Should They Do and Why Should Regulators Care?
Santomero, Anthony M.; Eckles, David L. - Wharton School <Philadelphia, Pa.>; Financial … - 2000
[...]The final force of change is the continual evolution of thedelivery channels through which financial services are offered.This has occurred in many ways and in several stages. First, theuse of postal services substituted for physical market presence;this was followed by increased use of...
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency?: TheCase of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
firm ownership type have no direct impact on firm efficiency. However, increased market competition related to rising … firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Results strongly confirm that market competition fosters efficiency.[...] …
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Lectures on Political Competition and Welfare
Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
There are N citizens who have to make a social decision about a set policies denotedby x ∈ A, where A denotes the set of feasible policies. Citizen’s preferencesover policy are denoted V i (x, j) ( where i = 1, ...,N) ,and j denotes the identityof the policy maker. This specification allows...
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Negative and Positive Effects of Competition in aPreemption Game
Suzuki, Toru - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
¢ ciency undermild competition. The e¤ect of competition on the equilibrium strategy is di¤erentdepending on which class of … thatthe e¤ect of competition on e¢ ciency is di¤erent between the common value and theprivate value setting. Strong … competition leads to the least e¢ cient equilibrium forthe common value setting but e¢ ciency can be improved by competition in …
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Standortstruktur und räumliche Entwicklungsdynamik der wissensintensiven, unternehmensbezogenen Dienstleistungen in Finnland
Thomi, Walter - Institut für Geographie <Halle, Saale>
Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit moderner Volkswirtschaften wird zunehmend mit der Effizienzund Effektivität in der Produktion und der Diffusion von Wissen zwischen Akteuren in Innovationssystemenin Verbindung gebracht (vgl. etwa Lundvall 1992, Thomi/Werner 2001).Nicht nur die eigenständige...
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The implications of latent technology regimesfor competition and efficiency in banking
Kötter, Michael; Poghosyan; Tigran - Deutsche Bundesbank <Frankfurt, Main> / … - 2008
group membership probabilities.The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks and weidentify four signicantly … substantiallylower compared to previous studies. We use technology regime specic cost parametersto measure competition with Lerner … indices. Large, national universal banksand the smallest, most specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition …
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Financial Market Efficiency and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy
Woodford, Michael - Princeton University / Department of Economics
Improvements in information processing technology andderegulation, among other forces, are profoundlytransforming the financial sector of the United States and otheradvanced economies. Many of these changes are likely toimprove the efficiency of financial intermediation, in the sensethat the...
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Trade and competitiveness with other regions
High Level Group on the Competitiveness of the European … - 2009
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