Against All Odds

proposed methodology. Finally, the fact that allocative efficiency of banks in our sample improves more than technical efficiency underlines the importance of including an allocative inefficiency component in parametric efficiency models. Ó 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 26 January 2009 Accepted 25 September 2009 Available online 2 October 2009 Keywords: Technical and allocative efficiency Translog cost function Maximum likelihood European banking 1. Introduction Several

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still incomplete, observations. For the ocean of the past, there are fragmentary GM01073_CH06.qxd 9/8/07 5:24 PM Page 54 54 PAST AND FUTURE OCEAN CIRCULATION data, and for the ocean of the future we have, by definition, no data at all. To keep the structure of this paper simple, I will focus primarily on (1) and (2), acknowledging that (3) is very important. Forecast problems are much like the paleoceanographic ones, albeit more difficult. (This ordering is oversimplified, and modeling

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du marché d'importation. Je suis retourné au Japon avec ce rapport. In truth, we had no strategy other than the idea of seeing if we could sell something in the United States. It was a new frontier, a new challenge, and it fit the ‘success against all odds’ culture that Mr Honda had cultivated. I reported my impressions to Fujisawa including the seat-of-the-pants target of trying, over several years, to attain a 10 per cent share of US imports. He didn’t probe that target quantitatively. We did

Bill's car because the plate says "NUMBER 1." And, as we all know, that's absolutely correct in terms of who Bill always looks out for. He wants his shot at CEO. But so do I. Too bad that I may never get the chance now. Anyway, I'm walking up to the office doors. Already the adrenalin is pumping. I'm wondering what the hell Bill is doing here. I've lost any hope of getting any work done this morning. I usually go in early to catch up on all the stuff I'm too busy to do during the day, because I can

reflecting wider availability of public guarantees, increased collateral values, and the expectation of continuously rising real estate prices. Mortgage products have evolved: variable-rate mortgages now represent close to half of outstanding mortgages, against a little over a quarter four years ago, average mortgage maturities have lengthened, and loan-to-value ratios have increased, with the share of loan-to-value ratios above 90 percent, almost doubling in the last two years and reaching 76 percent in

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Preston élaborera une typologie visant à confirmer « how well the individual characteristics of presidents (measured by PAD) predicted behavior (in terms of leadership style, decision making, interpersonal inter-actions, and advisory preference) in all the occasions for interaction across policy cases and presidents.»[8] En tirant parti de la méthode de classification développée par Margaret Hermann (1983), la « Personality Assessment-at-a-Distance (PAD) », l’auteur assoit sa démonstration sur trois

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