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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster

An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China between 1959 and 1961, can be attributed to a systemic failure in central planning. Encouraged by unrealistic expectations for agricultural productivity gains from...

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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective

Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...

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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Yared, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...

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Labor and Product Markets in Czechoslovakia and the ex-GDR: A Twin Study

Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Pre-reform similarities between the ex-German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia serve as a basis for comparing two …, then liberalized domestic price setting, and took up privatization and budgetary consequences last; the CSFR is striving to …

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Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition

Lizal, Lubomir; Singer, Miroslav; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper estimates the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spin-off units. The analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the performance...

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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Grajales, Anderson; Uras, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …

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Takeovers and the Dynamics of Information Flows

Chemla, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...

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Currency Unions and International Integration

Engel, Charles M; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …

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Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets....

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