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This paper empirically tests the link between trade openness and enterprise restructuring in Bulgaria. It belongs to a recent line of work in the empirical trade literature that investigates the effects of trade policy on firm behaviour. The trade liberalization following the 1991 economic...
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This paper discusses the potential role of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) in helping Middle East and North African governments implement structural economic reforms. The arguments for and against preferential liberalization are summarized, identifying a number of necessary conditions for...
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We use time-series methods to estimate a simple aggregate supply and demand model in order to analyse the comparative performance of fixed and flexible exchange rate systems and test competing hypotheses designed to explain shifts between exchange rate regimes. The paper provides a coherent...
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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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examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 …-15 percent following the shift to privatization. In light of the massive change in financial costs associated with childbearing … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …
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This paper interprets the existing evidence on enterprise restructuring in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Despite differences in restructuring policies, the pattern of observed restructuring appears similar in the three countries. Contrary to initial expectations, managers of SOEs have...
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This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … to regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is correlated …
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autocracy and weak governance institutions there is no significant difference in support for revising privatization between high … level of support for revising privatization between the high and low skilled grows dramatically. This finding contributes to …
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, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a … major test of political commitment to safer private property rights. We investigate whether successful privatization has a … privatization gradually leads to increased confidence. Moreover, increased confidence has a strong effect on local market …
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