competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of …

Produktion umzubauen. Signifikante Erhöhungen der Effizienz und der Produktivität waren die Folge. Die vorliegende Arbeit misst … technische Effizienz (TE) und total factor productivity (TFP) in China unter der Annahme individueller Technologien der Landwirte … Ansatzes wird das TFP Wachstum in Änderung der technischen Effizienz (TEC), technischen Fortschritt (TC) und Änderung der …

examined by contrasting the experiences of China and Mexico since these economies introduced trade liberalization. The …

liberalisation involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on exports, imports and the balance of payments in Mexico … slowdown of Mexico's growth in recent years. NAFTA has not delivered the improved growth performance that was promised by … Mexico's political leaders at the time. …

estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks … bank asset losses, of government support for banks, and other fiscal stimulus measures, in the EA. Our results suggest that …

The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel … through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which …

domestically-owned firms is through the impact on competition. We examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese … manufacturing sector and the effect of competition on firms' R&D. Our analysis is conducted on a large dataset including all Chinese … large and medium sized firms over the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI increases competition but there are no …

Many contributions to the literature on competition in banking use the Panzar and Rosse test (1987). This test …

This paper has attempted to examine the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine … commercial bank in the system producing the same output and facing the same conditions. On the other hand, the average measured … cost inefficiency of the commercial banks is 1.39, suggesting that, on average, 39 percent of the commercial bank's costs …