This paper investigates the determinants of banking system fragility by underlining the impact of bank liberalization on banking stability during the process of financial liberalization in emerging and developed countries. To this effect, we adopted a panel model with spatial dependency from a...

Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings (IPO) has always been a big deal to see the money left on the table by the issuers. This study analyzes the after-market performances of IPOs observed in 2006-2011 period in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Besides looking at the period as a whole, we...

This study aims to evaluate, in terms of their cardinal, ordinal, and dichotomy consistency, five alternative comercial specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these three based on revealed comparative...

This paper presents a critical analysis of some of the techniques which are applied in practice to obtain composite indicators from a previous sub-indicator system. In studying each methodology, we identify the advantages and disadvantages associated with them, paying particular attention to...

Bei der Weiterentwicklung erneuerbarer Energien spielen die Bundesländer eine wichtige Rolle, beispielsweise durch eigene Ausbauziele und die Gestaltung rechtlicher und administrativer Rahmenbedingungen. Die Bundesländer können damit wesentlich zum Gelingen der Energiewende beitragen. Das DIW...

The present article reviews poverty studies in Spanish Autonomous Communities using a new methodological approach. One of the main concerns in those studies is poverty concentration in specific Spanish Autonomous Communities. This can be the result of a bias due to use a unique national poverty...

In this paper we focus on presenting on supply and use tables and the approach in order to convert supply and use tables to input-output table and some comments on the assumption for converting from supply and use tables to input-output table. -- activity ; industry ; input-output ; matrix ;...

In this paper, we measure and analyse profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks using a newly developed index approach which is based on the directional distance function. Our findings indicate that the average bank operates quite far below the frontier of the best-practice bank,...

For many researchers around the world, the applications of the RAS method can say in both easy way and difficult way. In our study, we would like to bring to readers the RAS method, and in the best way to understand in balancing the Supply-Use tables or Input-Output tables in the usual...