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The Institutional Foundations of China’s Reforms and Development

Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look … ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper … analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over …

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Location and Education in South African Cities Under and After Apartheid

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We model a South African city during Apartheid (in which both schooling and mobility are restricted on the basis of race) and after Apartheid (in which no restrictions are imposed). We first show that the inequality between blacks and whites decreases when Apartheid laws are removed. Indeed,...

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Search in Cities

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop different spatial search models in which a land market is embedded into a standard search matching framework. The link between the land and the labour market is realized through the average search intensity of unemployed workers. We first develop a simple model where search intensity...

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Transition Problems in Economic Reform: Agriculture in the Mexico-US Free Trade Agreement

Levy, Santiago; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

At what speed should Mexican agriculture be incorporated into the North American Free Trade Agreement (FTA)? What policies should characterize the transition? We use Mexican agriculture as a case study to analyse the transition problems that arise in most major economic reforms. In particular,...

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Monetary Regimes and Labour Market Reform

Sibert, Anne; Sutherland, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Policy-makers’ incentives to undertake costly reform depends on the international monetary system. We consider the effect of monetary regimes on labour market reform. We find international negotiation of monetary policy produces less reform than non-cooperation. Reform is lowest of all with...

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Tax Reform, Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Restructuring in Hungary

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The two central economic problems facing Hungary are its large foreign debt and its relatively poor rate of growth over the 1980s. The paper examines some of the reform issues facing Hungary, starting with the tax reforms of 1988 and 1989, but concentrating on the importance of creating...

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Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro F; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and divergence in the nature and pace of political and economic reform and transformation after 1989. We put together a unique data set on dissident activities for the 27 former centrally...

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After the Honeymoon: On the Economics and the Politics of Economic Transformation

Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper focuses on the obvious: Pareto-improving programmes may fail to improve everyone's lot. Politically, it has often been interpreted as a requirement that a majority should benefit from the change. Events in Central and Eastern Europe suggest otherwise and cast doubt on the relevance of...

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Crises, What Crises?

Campos, Nauro F; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

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Trade Performance and Trade Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

Drábek, Zdenek; Smith, Alasdair - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The radical liberalization of foreign trade in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a key part of the economic reform and has been accompanied by a full-scale geographical reorientation of international trade from East to West. Increased trade with the EU has been associated with...

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