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The social and private costs of retail payment instruments: a European perspective

Schmiedel, Heiko; Kostova, Gergana; Ruttenberg, Wiebe - 2012

The European Central Bank (ECB) carried out a study of the social and private costs of different payment instruments with the participation of 13 national central banks in the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). It shows that the costs to society of providing retail payment services are...

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Banking Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU: Overview, Assessment and Prospects

Ayadi, Rym; Pujals, Georges - 2005

the impact of M&As in European banking on profitability and efficiency, considering the breakdown between domestic and … diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …, confirmed an improvement of cost efficiency and little improvement of profit efficiency for domestic transactions; whereas, no …

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Overcapacities in banking: Measurements, trends and determinants

Gardó, Sándor; Klaus, Benjamin - 2019

The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which started operating in November 2014, is an essential step towards restoring banks to health and rebuilding trust in the banking system. The ECB is today...

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Tehokkuus ja työhyvinvointi: Tiedolla kohti tasapainoista työtä

Kuusi, Tero; Kulvik, Martti; Härmä, Mikko; Ropponen, … - 2023

This project investigated how register data on daily working hours and hospital patients can be used to measure the workload of healthcare personnel and to study its relationship with different work features. We used econometric analysis to measure the average labor requirement of different...

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Four priorities in international health financing to consider after the Paris Summit

Mathonnat, Jacky - 2023

this justifies making improving the efficiency of healthcare spending a top priority for governments and their external … offer many potential advantages for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of health aid. …

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Quatre priorités dans le financement international de la santé à considérer après le Sommet de Paris

Mathonnat, Jacky - 2023

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What does European institutional integration tell us about trade integration?

Leiner-Killinger, Melanie; Madaschi, Christophe; … - 2005

This paper analyses trends in working time inthe euro area, in comparison with the US, over the period 1970 to 2004 and examines the causes and consequences of the observed changes. Between 1970 and 2004, a downward trend in average annual hours worked per worker can be observed for the euro...

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Globalisation and the competitiveness of the euro area

di Mauro, Filippo; Forster, Katrin - 2008

competitiveness, specifically with a stronger emphasis on productivity performance, the paper also introduces a more elaborate … framework that takes into account the interactions between country-specific factors and firm-level productivity. It thus makes …

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What's so special about specialization in the euro area? Early evidence of changing economic structures

Mongelli, Francesco Paolo; Reinhold, Elisa; … - 2016

countries productive resources were misallocated to less efficient and lower productivity sectors. In order to distinguish …

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Austrian FDI by main Countries and Industries

Hunya, Gabor - 2008

missed. Looking at the relationship between FDI growth on one hand and labour productivity, capital productivity and …

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