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technology". By separating the production of undesirable outputs from that of desirable outputs, not only do we ensure that … index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …
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The recovery in private business investment globally remains extremely weak more than seven years after the financial crisis. This paper contributes to the ongoing policy debate on the factors behind this weakness by analyzing the role of growth prospects and uncertainty in explaining...
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We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …
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panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of 'economics …' and 'social science, mathematical methods' in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …
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This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …
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-sample performance of our estimators. An empirical study of efficiency trends in the largest banks operating in the U.S. from 1990 to …
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expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains. This article examines whether theoretical expectations of cost efficiency gains … parameter frontier model, cost efficiency gains are found, particularly with a payment per patient case system. Payment systems …
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, have the potential to achieve growth through efficiency improvements and by adopting technology. Output growth in the … aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven by input, without increasing efficiency in production or benefiting from … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …
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This paper contributes to the debate on fiscal multipliers, in the context of a structural model. I estimate a micro-founded dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, that features a rich fiscal policy block and a transmission mechanism for government spending shocks, using Bayesian...
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We propose a framework of optimal monetary policy where debt sustainability may, or may not, be a relevant constraint for the central bank. We show analytically that in each environment the optimal interest rate path consists of a Taylor rule augmented with forward guidance terms. These terms...
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