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There is a concern that the state-dominated, inefficient, and fragile banking systems in many low-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are a major hindrance to economic growth. This paper systematically analyzes the impact of the far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in...
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This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we...
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Lithuania, have prompted concerns about the competitiveness of the Baltic economies, and called into question the sustainability …
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In Italy, price-based competitiveness measures are not always an accurate predictor of trade outcomes. This paper … offers a more comprehensive assessment of Italian competitiveness, focusing on the role of innovation and the evolution of … competitiveness will depend on full implementation of a comprehensive structural-reform agenda …
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competition, spurring firm efficiency and increasing Indian firms'' competitiveness and ability to export. We show that export …
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There is a research tradition in the economics of standards which addresses standards wars, antitrust concerns or positive externalities from standards. Recent research has also dealt with the process characteristics of standardisation, de facto standard-setting consortia and intellectual...
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Extreme adverse selection arises when private information has unbounded support, and market breakdown occurs when no trade is the only equilibrium outcome. We study extreme adverse selection via the limit behavior of a financial market as the support of private information converges to an...
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