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significant supervisory and regulatory reforms affecting banks efficiency performance. We offer new insights investigating overall … that persistent efficiency seems to be more important for both specifications, as it accounts for 32\% (for the production …
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Crisis (GFC) and whether operational efficiency is related to shareholder value creation in informationally efficient stock … markets. The impact of GFC on bank efficiency and shareholder value creation is assessed for 29 large banks in the USA, UK … bank efficiency and shareholder value during 2008-09. A significant relationship between profit efficiency and shareholder …
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The literature on socio economic implications of fiscal decentralization (FD) has recently been expanding, though only very few studies to day have looked at its macroeconomic effects. This paper investigates the relationship between FD and budget deficits. Using various measures of both...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and growing role in the provision of essential...
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In 2019, President Trump called on the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to depreciate the U.S. dollar, which, according to the IMF, is overvalued by between 6 and 12 percent. This paper uses an intertemporal general equilibrium model to explore what would likely happen if the...
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Productivity growth has flat-lined in most economies despite rapid advances in technology. Economists suggest competing explanations for this paradox. Some argue the current stagnation will persist given deep structural challenges, arguing that recent technological advances are no match for...
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This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
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This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic...
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achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …
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achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192502