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This paper focuses on some of the major problems of the Hungarian banking system and investigates the possible ways to deal with these problems. It discusses the issue of bank restructuring, concentrating on the large commercial banks for which direct or indirect state ownership is decisive....
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The euro area is experiencing a severe and highly complex crisis. It comprises three problem areas, the difficulties of some highly indebted European sovereigns to ascertain funding at palatable cost, the disconcerting fragility of the European banking system and disappointing growth prospects...
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The extent to which business groups ever existed in the United States and, if they did exist, the reasons for their disappearance are poorly understood. In this paper we use hitherto unexplored historical sources to construct a comprehensive data set to address this issue. We find that (1)...
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Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …
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The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...
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How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...
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benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …
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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 … of capital market reform and privatization are briefly discussed. …
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The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from …
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This paper looks at simple decision rules in bankruptcy procedures. It describes special issues of enterprise liquidation and reorganization during economic transformation. The reforms of the financial system and other important factors in economic transformation influence the impact of...
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