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, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods … them in Guyana and Trinidad, which unlike Jamaica applied infrequent and large adjustments to their official rates. The … causation is bi-directional in the case of Jamaica and uni-directional, with changes in the official rate Granger causing …
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This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both … by economic sectors. Occupational experience, in the case of Barbados, and job tenure, in the case of Jamaica, help to … females by between 14 and 27 percent of average females' wages in Barbados, and between 8 and 17 percent of average females …
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households in the Caribbean. Jamaica is used as the case study country. The paper discusses the channels through which natural … disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a …
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banks. Using usual statistical tests, we are unable to reject monopoly/perfect collusion for the banking market in Jamaica …
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The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an...
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Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In addition, we test for conditional convergence to identify...
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The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap among Jamaican...
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Eine Analyse der kroatischen Wirtschaft und abgeleitete Politikempfehlungen auf nationaler und EU-Ebene Ziel der Studie … ist die Ausarbeitung von Politikempfehlungen, die dabei helfen sollen, die kroatische Wirtschaft positiv zu stimulieren …
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Die Autoren zeigen, dass Griechenland trotz des Abschlusses der über acht Jahre dauernden Rettungsprogramme und einer wirtschaftlichen Stabilisierung am aktuellen Rand immer noch gravierenden Wirtschaftsproblemen gegenübersteht. Zwar wurde die Schuldenkrise durch einen vorläufigen, indirekten...
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