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The transition in East Germany has been characterized by an extremely rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises …-unification level. This paper argues that the government imposed an inconsistent policy toward employment on the privatization agency …, the Treuhand. Although required to take account of the shadow price of labour in the privatization negotiations (where …
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some countries, restructuring is being undertaken by the state before privatization; in some, restructuring is delegated to … and private firms and the complementarity between the assets of state and firms. The slow pace of privatization is due to … privatization process in East Germany. It notes that five parties have been central to the reform process: the state, the …
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The paper compares the experience with shock therapies in East Germany, Poland and the CSFR. After an analysis of the individual starting conditions and economic performance since the inception of comprehensive reform programmes it focuses on the specific elements of the East German reform...
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Economic development in East Germany is not uniform. The building and construction industry is booming but manufacturing industry is stagnating. The paper argues that severe distortions in relative factor prices are the cause of the dichotomous development. These distortions result from...
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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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This paper provides a brief overview of the East German employment problem and presents a simple model in which to evaluate two rival policy proposals: wage subsidies and revenue-sharing subsidies. Revenue-sharing subsidies have received little, if any, attention in the ongoing public debate on...
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the main elements of German union: monetary union, fiscal union, legal and administrative union, and rapid privatization …
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This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
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privatization on airport charges in a panel data setting where fixed effects can be employed to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Our …
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This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …
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