By applying the non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), this article attempts to investigate productivity … post-crisis period of 2001-2004. Our results suggest that Malaysian NBFIs exhibited productivity regress during the post … banks' productivity regress was mainly due to technological regress, the finance companies, on the other hand, exhibited …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …

growth - the few that exists show that there is a positive relationship between debt and future productivity growth … productivity; ii) the strength of this association declines in employment of the firm; iii) there is diminishing returns to … leverage in terms of its impact on productivity but we don't see a threshold beyond which the returns drop; iv) aggregate …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European …

This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990 … output and productivity (partial and total factor) we relied on the index number method (Tornqvist index). We also considered … the effect of labor quality on banks' productivity and the contribution of total factor productivity to bank output growth …

This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990 … estimation of output and inputs and the estimation of productivity (partial and total factor) we relied on the index number … method (Tornqvist index). Additionally, we considered the effect of labor quality on banks’ productivity and using a growth …

inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity … misallocation, leading to aggregate productivity losses of 5-10 per cent. In particular, tariffs are strongly related to distortions … that are correlated with firm productivity. The main channel through which tariffs distort the allocation of capital is …

productivity by as much as 6%, suggesting large "productivity costs" of business cycles. …

sector, this paper examines productivity dynamics of formal and informal firms. We decompose productivity changes into …-formal transitions. Our results show that productivity is considerably lower and misallocation more prevalent in the informal than in the … formal sector. Yet, formalizing firms in Viet Nam make an important contribution to aggregate productivity growth among …