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exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis's (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and … choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a … competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …
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exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and … choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a … competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786048
exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and … choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a … competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690383
On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European Union using the stochastic frontier approach. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994266
The paper consolidates the summarised financial statements of the main banks operating in Malta during the year 2002, to form a Typical Large Bank and a Typical Small Bank. The profitability, risk and growth prospects of the two institutions are analysed through Return on Equity decomposition...
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banking fits into the core economic services provided by banks, and its costs and benefits. This leads to an examination of …
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I study the effect of banking relationships on the formation of new supply-chain relationships. I find that common banking relationships between a firm and a potential supplier increase the probability that the potential supplier will be selected to start a new supply-chain relationship. The...
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This paper examines how product market threats shape the use of performance pricing in loan contracts. Loan contracting faces a trade-off between financial markets and product markets: while using contractual terms that are linked to borrower performance -- such as performance pricing --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938056
On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European Union using the stochastic frontier approach. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735742
If banks solve an inter-temporal problem under adverse selection and moral hazard, then bank specific factors, regulatory and supervisory features, market structure, and macroeconomic factors affect banks loan interest rates and their spread over deposit interest rates. To examine post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860139