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Exports, Productivity, and Credit Constraints: A Firm-Level Empirical Investigation of China
Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009
Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firmfs productivity has significant … effects on the firmfs exports. This paper examines how a firmfs credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495558
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Identifying productivity change in Botswana’s financial institutions: an application of Malmquist productivity indices
Moffat, Boitnmelo; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2008
The productivity and efficiency of the financial sector is pivotal to the attainment of economic growth and development … restructuring. This study applies the Malmquist productivity index to measure and decompose the total factor productivity change of …, intermediation and operating approaches. The empirical results indicate a loss or little productivity gain in Botswana’s financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005212350
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Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index
Fare, R.; Grifell-Tatje, E.; Grosskopf, S.; Lovell, C.A.K. - EconWPA - 1995
The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077048
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An 'Ideal' Decomposition of Industry Dynamics: An Application to the Nationwide and State Level U.S. Banking Industry
Miller, Stephen M.; Jeon, Yongil - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005
This paper considers the aggregate performance of the banking industry, applying a modified and extended dynamic decomposition of bank return on equity. The aggregate performance of any industry depends on the underlying microeconomic dynamics within that industry . adjustments within banks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005746097
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An 'Ideal' Deconposition of Industry Dynamics: An Application to the Nationwide and State Level U.S. Banking Industry
Jeon, Yongil; Miller, Stephen M. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2002
This paper considers the aggregate performance of the banking industry, applying a modified and extended dynamic decomposition of bank return on equity. The aggregate performance of any industry depends on the underlying microeconomic dynamics within that industry -- adjustments within banks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005746117
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Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking
Frei, F.X.; Harker, P.T. - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business … - 1996
This paper presents a methodology that determines the role of design in calculating the efficiency of service delivery processes. The efficiency of these processes is determined by using a variation of frontier estimation (DEA-like) techniques. The methodology is then applied to a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669623
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Performance in Consumer Financial Services Organizations: Framework and Reslts from the Pilot Study
Frei, F.X.; Harker, P.T.; Hunter, L.W. - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business … - 1996
Over the past decade, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has sponsored a series of industry studies, the aim of which is to understand how technology and human resources practices blend together to create high-performance workplaces and competitive industries. This report summarizes the first year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669625
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Innovation and growth with financial, and other, frictions
Chiu, Jonathan; Meh, Césaire Assah; Wright, Randall D. - 2011
a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and …. -- Economic models ; Potential output ; Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355179
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Exports, productivity, and credit constraints : a firm-level empirical investigation of China
Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298671
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Source of finance, growth and firm size : evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - 2009
the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845179