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A causality analysis of the FDI-wages-productivity nexus in China

Ramasamy, Bala; Yeung, Matthew - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 3 (2010) 1, pp. 5-23

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), wages and productivity in China. The direction of causality among these variables is also to be emphasized. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop a system of equations and...

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Analysis of managerial efficiency in insurance sector in the UAE: an emerging economy

Rao, Ananth; Kashani, Hossein; Marie, Attiea - In: International Journal of Managerial Finance 6 (2010) September, pp. 329-343

Purpose – This study sets out to analyze the efficiency and productivity issues of the insurance sector from both the policymakers' and investors' points of view to insulate the business and financial risks of UAE corporate houses. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses two inputs of...

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Institutional credit and rice productivity: a case study of District Lahore, Pakistan

Bashir, Muhammad Khalid; Mehmood, Yasir - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 4, pp. 412-419

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how institutional credit affected the productivity of rice crop in District Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample respondents. The...

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Impact of infrastructure on output, productivity and efficiency: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing industry

Sharma, Chandan; Sehgal, Sanjay - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 3 (2010) October, pp. 100-121

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on industry-level productivity, output and efficiency in India over the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – The first stage, estimated total factor productivity...

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Efficiency and productivity of banking sector: A critical analysis of literature and design of conceptual model

Sharma, Dipasha; Sharma, Anil K.; Barua, Mukesh K. - In: Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 5 (2013) June, pp. 195-224

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a comprehensive literature survey of studies focusing on the efficiency and productivity of the banking sector using parametric and non-parametric frontier techniques. Design/methodology/approach – Critically reviewing 106 studies published...

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Modeling the effect of CEO power on efficiency: Evidence from the European non-life insurance market

Bahloul, Walid; Hachicha, Nizar; Bouri, Abdelfettah - In: Journal of Risk Finance 14 (2013) May, pp. 266-285

Purpose – Many factors like CEO (“the chief executive officer”) decision can influence efficiency and productivity in insurance firms. This paper seeks to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – To test the effect of CEO power on the efficiency and the productivity of the...

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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms

Viverita; Ariff, M. - In: Managerial Finance 34 (2008), pp. 644-659

analysis of other firms, e.g. Islamic banks in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies Malmquist data …

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The impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity growth: International evidence from the banking industry

Tanna, Sailesh - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009), pp. 297-311

quoted commercial banks operating in 75 countries, covering the period 2000-2004. The empirical analysis is conducted in two … stages. First, a non-parametric Malmquist analysis is employed to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change of banks …, which is consistent with the evidence from the Malmquist analysis suggesting that banks experience episodes of technical …

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Effects of temporary hiring on the profits of Spanish manufacturing firms

Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, César - In: International Journal of Manpower 28 (2007) July, pp. 152-152

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of the proportion of temporary workers on the profit-to-sales ratio (or price-cost margin) of Spanish manufacturing firms in the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach – The relation between the proportion of temporary workers and the...

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Investigating agricultural productivity improvements in transition economies

Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 4, pp. 450-467

Purpose – This paper aims to conduct inter-country analysis of agricultural productivity growth in transition countries in Asia and Europe. This paper pays particular attention to the magnitude and direction of productivity growth over different stages of their market reforms....

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