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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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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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Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Iyer, Lakshmi; Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Zhao, Xiaoxue - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall...

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Domestic and Trade Policy for Central and East European Agriculture

Karp, Larry; Stefanou, Spiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

After a brief period of liberal agricultural policies, Central and East European (CEE) countries have begun to rely increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies. Scarce government funds could be better used to...

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Redistributive Policy in a Transition Economy: The Case of Hungary

Jarvis, Sarah; Pudney, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This study examines the scope for redistributive government policies based on progressive income taxation and direct income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of the household sector and changes in the Hungarian...

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An Exercise in Futility: East German Economic Growth and Decline, 1945-89

Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper assembles and reviews data on growth performance for East Germany. Conclusions are only tentative, as data reliability is still poor. Examining factor growth and total factor productivity performance, the paper arrives at three main conclusions. First, large-scale dismantling of...

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The Output Decline in Central and Eastern Europe: A Classical Explanation

Bofinger, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The paper discusses the strong output decline in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It starts from the puzzling observation that the former CSFR, Hungary and Poland experienced a relatively similar decline in output in spite of completely different stabilization and transformation...

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