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Catching Up With Eastern Europe? The European Union's Mediterranean Free Trade Initiative

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

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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Macroeconomic Adjustment Under Bretton Woods and the Post-Bretton-Woods Float: An Impulse-Response Analysis

Bayoumi, Tamim; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

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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Trade Liberalization and Enterprise Restructuring in Bulgaria, 1992-4

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

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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The Integration of Financial Services and Economic Welfare after `1992'

Ryan, Cillian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper uses a computable general-equilibrium model of intertemporal demand to investigate the impact of market integration after 1992 on financial services and economic welfare in the European Community (EC). In contrast to previous work, it assesses the impact of `1992' on the demand for...

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Weathering the crisis and beyond: Perspectives for the Euro Area

Schmidt, Christoph M; Weigert, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The euro area is experiencing a severe and highly complex crisis. It comprises three problem areas, the difficulties of some highly indebted European sovereigns to ascertain funding at palatable cost, the disconcerting fragility of the European banking system and disappointing growth prospects...

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Business Groups in the United States: A Revised History of Corporate Ownership, Pyramids and Regulation, 1930-1950

Kandel, Eugene; Kosenko, Konstantin; Morck, Randall; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The extent to which business groups ever existed in the United States and, if they did exist, the reasons for their disappearance are poorly understood. In this paper we use hitherto unexplored historical sources to construct a comprehensive data set to address this issue. We find that (1)...

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Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

Greif, Avner; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

How to sustain cooperation is a key challenge for any society. Different social organizations have evolved in the course of history to cope with this challenge by relying on different combinations of external (formal and informal) enforcement institutions and intrinsic motivation. Some societies...

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Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Cai, Hongbin; Li, Hongbin; Park, Albert; Zhou, Li-An - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more...

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship …

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The Institutional Foundations of China’s Reforms and Development

Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look … ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper … analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over …

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