and cost efficiency. We suggest a new matching strategy to control for the selection effects arising from the fact that …The question of whether or not mergers and acquisitions have helped to enhance banks’ efficiency and profitability has … positive effect on cost efficiency. Comparing our results with those obtained from a naive performance comparison of merging …

and cost efficiency. We suggest a new matching strategy to control for the selection effects arising from the fact that …The question of whether or not mergers and acquisitions have helped to enhance banks' efficiency and profitability has … positive effect on cost efficiency. Comparing our results with those obtained from a naive performance comparison of merging …

This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … matching. The correlation between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are … equal. In a fairly general matching model, this shape of the wage curve arises due to complementarities of qualities in the …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to …

-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment effect on the treated. We analyse both … ones in terms of size and power for both matching and weighting estimators. Furthermore, the results are qualitatively …

entropy matching on the basis of a large representative administrative linked employer-employee panel data set to guarantee …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …