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The aim of this paper is to present the changes in the banking sectors of European Union (EU) countries both before the … addresses the current problems in the banking sector of the EU (i.e., banks are too-big-to-fail (TBTF)), and attempts to solving … increasing the concentration and size of the banking sectors within EU-27 from the period 2006-2010 had a negative impact on …
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The aim of this paper is to present the changes in the banking sectors of European Union (EU) countries both before the … addresses the current problems in the banking sector of the EU (i.e., banks are too-big-to-fail (TBTF)), and attempts to solving … increasing the concentration and size of the banking sectors within EU-27 from the period 2006-2010 had a negative impact on …
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We conduct a regional analysis of the relationship between market concentration and price dynamics in the grocery retail sector, focusing on a sample of five categories of goods belonging to the 12 COICOP aggregation and on a panel of countries that includes Germany, Spain, Finland, Italy,...
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European business services have experienced about two decades of almost zero productivity growth. The paper investigates whether this is caused by weak dynamic market selection. The time pattern of scale-related inefficiencies is used as an indicator for the effectiveness of market selection.We...
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In most EU member states, the business services industry has booked no productivity growth during the last two decades. The industry's performance in the other member states was weaker than that of its US counterparts. Exploring what may be causing this productivity stagnation, this policy brief...
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Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …
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institutions. The Washington institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Following the start of the EU …
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Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …
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We examine whether the European settlement institutions are technically efficient. This is done by means of estimating a translog cost function, and investigating whether scale economies are fully exploited. Since the sample is quite heterogeneous, fixed effects regression is introduced. From...
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