Gegenstand der empirischen Untersuchung ist die Bedeutung der wirtschaftlichen Öffnung für die Effizienz der verarbeitenden Industrie in China. Die Datenbasis bilden die Input- und Output-Daten des "Third National Industrial Census of the People's Republic of China in 1995". Die Verfasser...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Robust Dynamic Space–time Panel Data Models Using εε-contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change -- Chapter 3. Unbiased Estimation of the OLS Covariance Matrix When the Errors are Clustered -- Chapter 4. Refined GMM Estimators for...

Based on a representative sample of the 238 largest foreign-invested toy manufacturing firms in southern China by output value, we adopted a two-stage approach to examine the role of leverage on firm performance as measured by technical efficiency, and the effect of efficiency on profitability....

This paper examines the factors that affect profit efficiency of banks in Vietnam over the period from 2000 to 2006. The effects of four groups of variables, including bank-specific characteristics, ownership, transitional environment and macroeconomic conditions on the profitability of banks,...

In the present paper, we employ alternative techniques to examine the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the total factor productivity of Malaysian banks. These alternative techniques extend from the use of non-parametric ‘frontier’-oriented Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and central...