Eastern European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock, deriving from the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of...

Eastern European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock, deriving from the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of...

"Anders als in den westlichen Industriestaaten stehen in den RGW-Ländern die Regelungen des Übergangs in den Ruhestand völlig unter dem Eindruck daß Arbeitskräftemangel herrsche. Sowohl die Anwendung der flexiblen Altersgrenze wie auch die Erhöhung materieller Anreize zur Fortsetzung der...

"Anders als in den westlichen Industriestaaten stehen in den RGW-Ländern die Regelungen des Übergangs in den Ruhestand völlig unter dem Eindruck daß Arbeitskräftemangel herrsche. Sowohl die Anwendung der flexiblen Altersgrenze wie auch die Erhöhung materieller Anreize zur Fortsetzung der...

The development of accounting in Czechoslovakia after the World War II was influenced by political and economic changes of that time. Firstly, it is a subject to tradition, and then also the political order. It results in the transition from the Germanic type of accounting to the Soviet model of...

In the period between 1953 - 1965 the system of Book-Keeping Evidence of the National-Economic Evidence was used in Czechoslovakia, based strictly on the Soviet model of accounting. This system was replaced in 1966 by Singular System for Economic Information. The content followed the post-war...

As the countries of Eastern and Central Europe transform their economies from centrally–planned to market–oriented, the question of the role that the governments should play in mobilizing savings to ensure a high growth rate must be addressed. This paper argues that the issue of a good...

In this paper we show that temperature is an aggregate risk factor that adversely affects economic growth. Our argument is based on evidence from global capital markets which shows that the covariance between country equity returns and temperature (i.e., temperature betas) contains sharp...