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Hardened Budgets and Enterprise Restructuring: Theory and an Application to Romania

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Djankov, Simeon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We identify the presence of soft budgets and analyse their impact on enterprise restructuring in Romania over the …

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Competition and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from Firm Level Surveys in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania

Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

countries, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The data are based on interviews taken in more than 300 state-owned, privatized and … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short … Romania, the results are somewhat mixed; state-owned enterprises do worse than employee-owned (privatized) and newly …

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The Enterprise Isolation Programme in Romania

Djankov, Simeon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We provide comprehensive analysis of the isolation program for financially distressed firms in Romania. The results …

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Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania

Javorcik, Beata; Li, Yue - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

-level data from Romania, this study examines how the presence of global retail chains affects firms in the supplying industries …

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Industrial Policy and Competition

Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; Du, Liqun; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The economic slowdown in the 70s in Latin America and Japan in the late 90s, generated a growing skepticism about the role of industrial policy in the process of economic development. Yet, new considerations have emerged over the recent period, which invite us to revisit the issue. This paper...

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Industrial Policy and Firm Heterogeneity

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Nilssen, Tore - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Our concern is about a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyse a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: they differ...

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Industrial Organization and the New Industrial Policy

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to try to shed some new light on the current industrial policy crisis. This paper proposes that the industrial policy debate is shaped by knowledge about the functioning of the underlying industrial structure, which in turn is the Gegenstand of scholars in the field...

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Economic Development as Self Discovery

Hausmann, Ricardo; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In the presence of uncertainty about what a country can be good at producing, there can be great social value to discovering costs of domestic activities because such discoveries can be easily imitated. We develop a general-equilibrium framework for a small open economy to clarify the analytical...

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Trade Policy with Increasing Returns and Imperfect Competition: Contradictory Results from Competing Assumptions

Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

A number of recent papers reach different conclusions concerning the effects of trade and industrial policy on imperfectly competitive industries; the implications for policy are therefore sensitive to assumptions concerning both firm behaviour and market structure. This paper sets out a single...

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