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Fairness and inequality tolerance: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Cojocaru, Alexandru - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 590-608

This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27 … transition economies, where income inequality increased considerably since 1989. A test of inequality aversion in individual … preferences that draws on the Fehr and Schmidt (1999) specification of inequality aversion is proposed, and the difficulties of …

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Can religion insure against aggregate shocks to happiness? The case of transition countries

Popova, Olga - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 804-818

This paper examines the effects of reforms and religion on happiness in transition economies. Earlier literature suggests that religiosity insures happiness against various individual stressful life events. This phenomenon is well-explored in developed countries but rarely studied in...

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External finance and firm survival in the aftermath of the crisis: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert; Kisunko, Gregory - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 372-392

We use two data sets to study how country and firm characteristics affected firms’ financial constraints and their likelihood of survival during the early phase of the recent global financial crisis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA), a region that was especially hard hit. The first data...

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Social networks and bribery: The case of entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe

Chavis, Larry - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 279-293

Using a survey of new firms in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, I explore how an entrepreneur’s social networks affect the amount paid in bribes to government officials. Lower levels of bribe payments are associated with ownership by a former manager of a state-owned enterprise (SOE), with being...

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Explaining foreign bank entrance in emerging markets

Althammer, Wilhelm; Haselmann, Rainer - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 39 (2011) 4, pp. 486-498

This paper provides a theoretical framework that can explain the empirical observation that foreign banks from industrialized countries tend to increase their involvement in emerging markets in periods of market instability. In this model, domestic banks have (through past lending operations)...

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Trade integration and the skill premium: Evidence from a transition economy

Cho, Sang-Wook; Díaz, Julián P. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 2, pp. 601-620

Relatively little attention has been given to documenting the evolution of the skill premium (defined as the ratio of the wages of skilled to unskilled workers) in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe, most likely due to the lack of readily available data. In this article, we first...

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Impact of firm heterogeneity on direct and spillover effects of FDI: Micro-evidence from ten transition countries

Damijan, Jože P.; Rojec, Matija; Majcen, Boris; Knell, Mark - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 895-922

This paper presents a comparative study of the importance of direct technology transfer and spillovers through FDI on a set of 10 transition countries, using a common methodology and appropriate methods to account for selection and simultaneity correction. This paper considers by far the largest...

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Monetary and fiscal policy interactions: Evidence from emerging European economies

Cevik, Emrah Ismail; Dibooglu, Sel; Kutan, Ali M. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 1079-1091

This paper examines the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy for some former transition, emerging European economies over the 1995Q1–2010Q4 period by using a Markov regime-switching model. We consider the monetary policy rule proposed by Taylor (1993) and the fiscal policy rule...

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When does FDI have positive spillovers? Evidence from 17 transition market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 954-969

We use rich firm-level data and national input–output tables from 17 countries over the 2002–2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that...

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Tordesillas, slavery and the origins of brazilian inequality

Laudares, mberto; Caicedo, lipe Valencia - 2023

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