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The Economics of Regional Demarcation in Banking
Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010
shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294740
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The economics of regional demarcation in banking
Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010
shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271449
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Neue Anhaltspunkte für Effizienz und Produktivität in der chinesischen Agrarproduktion: Eine Metafrontier Untersuchung
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299369
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
The study decomposes the sources of Chinese growth by first making a distinction between technological progress and technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a series of reform programmes, such as urbanization, structural change, privatization, liberalization,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284622
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Can free trade guarantee gains from trade?
Cruz, Moritz - 2008
examined by contrasting the experiences of China and Mexico since these economies introduced trade liberalization. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273421
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Finance for Renewable Energy: An Empirical Analysis of Developing and Transition Economies
Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009
This paper examines the role of the financial sector in renewable energy (RE) development. Although RE can bring socio-economic and environ- mental benefits, its implementation faces a number of obstacles, especially in non-OECD countries. One of these obstacles is financing: underdevel- oped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753181
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Bank efficiency in transitional countries: Sensitivity to stochastic frontier design
Iršová, Zuzana - 2010
scaling effect is neglected in the cost efficiency measurement. The implied bank ranking is robust to changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322313
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The structure and performance of Ethiopia's financial sector in the pre- and post-reform period with a special focus on banking
Geda, Alemayehu - 2006
Since 1992 Ethiopia has been engaged in liberalizing its financial sector. The hallmark of the strategy is gradualism. The approach is not without problems especially from Bretton Woods Institutions that saw the reform as a sluggish process. This study examines this liberalization program by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333062
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Republic of Belarus: Financial sector review and private sector financing
Gattini, Luca; Borysko, Sofia - 2018
In dieser Studie wird die gesamtwirtschaftliche Lage in Belarus behandelt. Der belarussische Finanzsektor wird …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948362
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FDI, Market Structure and R&D Investments in China
Lundin, Nannan; He, Ping; Qian, Jinchang; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320152