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An Assessment of the Access by Romanian SMEs to Structural Funds
Hunya, Gabor - 2011
Romanian SMEs can directly benefit from the Sectoral Operational Programme 'Increase of Economic Competitiveness' (SOP IEC) and some parts of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) in the period 2007 2013. Research commissioned by the Directorate General for Regional Policy of the European...
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Measuring Scale Economies in a Heterogeneous Industry: The Case of European Settlement Institutions
van Cayseele, Patrick; Wuyts, Christophe - 2006
We examine whether the European settlement institutions are technically efficient. This is done by means of estimating a translog cost function, and investigating whether scale economies are fully exploited. Since the sample is quite heterogeneous, fixed effects regression is introduced. From...
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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area
Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - 2008
The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has remained at a high level relative to other age groups in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606241
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Der Corona-Innovationswettlauf in der Wissenschaft: Eine Analyse der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie und die Bedeutung für den Pharma-Standort D...
Kirchhoff, Jasmina; Mertens, Armin; Scheufen, Marc - 2020
Die Corona-Pandemie und die damit einhergehenden Einschränkungen in fast allen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Bereichen beeinflussen seit einigen Wochen das Leben der Menschen weltweit. Neben der möglichen Strategie, eine Herdenimmunität durch Infizierung von 60 bis 70 Prozent der...
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343639
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Quatre priorités dans le financement international de la santé à considérer après le Sommet de Paris
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343640