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Competition in Bank-Provided Payment Services

Bolt, Wilko - 2013

Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an efficient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers, but data available to gauge the degree of competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a...

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Competition in Bank-Provided Payment Services

Bolt, Wilko - 2013

Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an efficient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083208

Competition in Bank-Provided Payment Services

Bolt, Wilko - 2013

Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an efficient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of competition is quite limited. We propose and implement a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072776

The Icelandic Economy: a victim of the financial crisis or simply inefficient?

Oh, Dong-Hyun; Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Iceland, one of the smallest European economies, was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper uses a firm-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system. We examine the linkage between the crisis...

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The Icelandic Economy: A Victim of the Financial Crisis or Simply Inefficient?

Oh, Dong-hyun; Loof, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2009

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Measuring economic growth using data envelopment analysis

Škare, Marinko; Rabar, Danijela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 386-406

Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...

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Economic efficiency of the Mexican metropolitan regions between 1998 and 2008 : European Regional Science Association, 21-25th August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Nieto Trejo, Alejandra - 2012

to expand economically and improve the quality of life for the population. Yet, productivity, profits and efficiency are … specificities and differences among metropolis is called for. However there has been a relatively scarce recording of productivity …, delimit and classify functionally the metropolitan zones in order to guide further analysis as well as competitiveness …

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