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Trade Performance and Trade Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Drábek, Zdenek; Smith, Alasdair - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The radical liberalization of foreign trade in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a key part of the economic reform and has been accompanied by a full-scale geographical reorientation of international trade from East to West. Increased trade with the EU has been associated with...
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Growth Accelerations
Hausmann, Ricardo; Pritchett, Lant; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...
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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Khandelwal, Amit; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …
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Free Trade and Long-Run Growth
Ben-David, Dan; Loewy, Michael B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
What is the impact of movement towards free trade on output? Can this impact permanently affect output levels, and more importantly, will it have an impact on steady-state growth rates? This paper provides empirical evidence showing how countries have exhibited substantial increases in their...
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Growth and Macroeconomic Performance in Spain, 1939-93
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
After presenting trends in aggregate performance within a comparative convergence framework, this paper explores institutional and macroeconomic features as the ultimate explanations of Spain's post-war growth performance. The following main phases are distinguished: the autarchy period...
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From 'Hindu Growth' to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition
Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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Procurement with specialized firms
Boone, Jan; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes optimal procurement mechanisms in a setting where the procurement agency has incomplete information concerning the firms' cost functions and cares about quality as well as price. Low type firms are cheaper than high type firms in providing low quality but more expensive when...
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Banking Competition and European Integration
Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
We assess how banking competition will be affected by the process of deregulation and integration in European financial …
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Deregulation of Business
Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better … substantial positive effect of deregulation on net entry and small business employment and no effect on pollution and public …
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