MMF MEETING
A last reminder about the meeting this week:
FRIDAY, 3 JUNE 2005, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Efficiency Analysis in Macroeconomics and Finance
12:30-13:30 Buffet lunch (provided by the Department of Accounting, Finance
and Management, University of Essex). All invited.
13:30- 15:00
S. Ray (University of Connecticut), K. Mukerjee (Worchester Polytechnic
Institute) and Y. Wu (University of Connecticut): “Direct and Indirect
Measures of Capacity Utilization: A Nonparametric Analysis of US
Manufacturing”.
A. Afonso (European Central Bank and ISEG/UTL-Technical University of
Lisbon) and M. St. Aubyn (ISEG/UTL-Technical University of Lisbon): "Cross-
country Efficiency of Secondary Education Provision: A Semi-parametric
Analysis with Nondiscretionary Inputs".
P. Arestis, (University of Cambridge), G. Chortareas (University of Essex),
and E. Desli (Lloyds of London): “Financial Development and Productive
Efficiency: Evidence from OECD Countries”.
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:00
S. Miller (University of Nevada Las Vegas and University of Connecticut),
T. Clauretie (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and T.M. Springer (Florida
Atlantic University): “Economics of Scale and Cost Efficiencies: A Panel-
Data Stochastic-Frontier Analysis of Real Estate Investment Trusts”.
J. Pastor (Universidad Miguel Hernández), and A. Lozano (University of
Malaga): “Banking Activity and Macroeconomic Performance: An Empirical
Study at the Country Level”.
B. Casu (University of Wales, Bangor) and C. Girardone (University of
Essex): “Bank Concentration and Performance in the Single European Market”.
Notes:
Transport facility from the Colchester train station to the Department of
Accounting, Finance and Management, University of Essex, will be available
for all attendants at 12:00 and 12:30, and after the conference. Trains
from London to Colchester depart from Liverpool Street Station every 10-15
minutes.
We are grateful to the Bank of England for a generous grant, which enables
us to reimburse travelling expenses within the UK.
If any colleagues wish to conduct the organisers, especially on the day of
the meeting, they can do so by telephoning the departmental secretary
(01206 872 546) of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management,
University of Essex.
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