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Efficiency and profitability of European banks: how important is operational efficiency?
Werner, Karl; Moormann, Jürgen - 2009
period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298954
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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area
van Leuvensteijn, Michiel; Bikker, Jacob A.; van … - 2007
approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316909
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282066
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Social Preferences and Competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009
(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334117
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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Competition and the ratchet effect
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277018
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Social Preferences and Competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427563
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Venture mania in Europe: Its causes and consequences
Schertler, Andrea; Stolpe, Michael - 2000
Over the course of the past twenty years, venture capital has fuelled an entrepreneurial revolution - first in the United States and now in Europe's common market -, which has opened new opportunities for technological innovation, capital investment and employment growth. Some of the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295107
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Zukunft des Sozialstaates: Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels
Roppel, Cirsten; Roppel, Ulrich - 2011
Im Großen und Ganzen sind die Sozialversicherungen zukunftsfähig aufgestellt; gleichwohl besteht weiterer Handlungsbedarf. Mit der Agenda 2010 und dem Wechsel von einem Defined Benefit- auf ein Defined Contribution-System hat die Regierung Schröder den ersten, mit der Schuldenregel, der Rente...
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