This study examines the technical efficiency and productivity of domestic and foreign commercial banks in Malaysia 1994-2000. We find that foreign banks have a higher efficiency level than domestic banks, and that efficient banks are characterised by size but not profitability or loan quality. The main source of productivity growth is technical change rather than improvement in efficiency. The ...

Gianyar is one of the regencies which are main tourist destinations in Province Bali, with icon Ubud tourism area areas already very well known foreign countries. The increase visits, both domestic and foreign, certainly brings prosperity to community also government. Fulfillment all necessary facilities for world should be a serious concern government so that tourists feel at home when visitin...

Based on a dynamic open-economy macroeconomic model, this paper aims at understanding the contribution of domestic financial under-development to foreign reserve accumulation in some emerging market economies, especially in China. It is argued that foreign reserve accumulation is a consequence of a growth strategy induced by strong capital investment in a financially constrained economy. It is ...

This paper proposes a procedure to incorporate the conjectural variation approach in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis such that the strategic interaction among rival firms in international markets can be modelled. It shows how to calibrate the conjectured reactions of rival domestic and foreign firms. It also shows that the approach suggested by Harrison, Rutherford and Tarr (hence...

The COVID-19 pandemic appeared in Vietnam from the beginning of 2020. Even during pandemic, Vietnamese Government had policy to encourage domestic tourism, minimizing reception foreign tourists. has a significant impact on tourism industry Vietnam, especially transportation, hotels, and restaurants. From contributing more than US$32.5 billion 2019, contributed only US$13.5 2020, down 41.53%. pa...

An inverted U-shaped relationship is thought to exist between the number of firms entrenched in a market and the rate of new entrants. This study examined early and late entry by foreign and U.S. banks into the California market following a deregulation in the banking industry in the early 1980s. The study was designed to elucidate the competitive interactions between foreign and domestic banks...

Firms in developing countries typically cite credit constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. By bringing in scarce capital, it is often argued that foreign direct investment may ease domestic firms’ credit constraints. Alternatively, if foreign firms borrow heavily from domestic banks, they may exacerbate domestic firms’ credit constraints by crowding them out of domestic ca...

Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country’s output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering of these goods, contributing to domestic imitation and innovation. This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in both developed and developing countries. It then considers the contributi...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of country-of-origin image, consumer ethnocentrism and animosity on the purchase of domestic and foreign products in China. AMOS software was used to analyze the data from the questionnaire survey. The results indicate that the effects of consumer ethnocentrism are significant in the case of domestic and foreign products in China, and the hypo...

Facundo Albornoz, Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Marco G. Ercolani Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK 3 August 2009 Abstract Using Argentinean firm-level data, we identify and quantify the factors that influence the environmental actions of Argentinean firms. We examine various aspects of a firm‟s environmental actions (EAs), including the range of EAs adopted, the ...