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Faini, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …

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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …

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Commodity and Equity Markets: Some Stylized Facts from a Copula Approach

Delatte, Anne-Laure; Lopez, Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper, we propose to identify the dependence structure existing between the returns of equity and commodity futures and its evolution through the past 20 years. The key point is that we do not do not impose the dependence structure but let the data select it. To do so, we model the...

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The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Schweiger, Helena; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?

Cornelli, Francesca; Kominek, Zbigniew; Ljungqvist, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance. We exploit exogenous variation due to the staggered adoption of corporate governance laws in formerly Communist countries coupled with detailed ‘hard’ information about the...

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Convergence in Output in Transition Economies: Central and Eastern Europe, 1970-1995

Estrin, Saul; Urga, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we use unit roots/cointegration analysis and time-varying parameters procedures to test for a common growth path in the ex-communist block, both pre- and post-reform. We test whether there has been convergence within the block and between the block as a group and the West....

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Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Transition Economies

Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Using a unique firm-level dataset this study shows that, contrary to the hopes of transition economies, foreign investors in the region are characterized by low, rather than high, R&D intensity. The results also indicate that investors with higher R&D spending are more likely to engage in...

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Aspects of Fiscal Performance in some Transition Economies under Fund-supported Programs

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper contains a selective review of some of the key fiscal issues faced by transition economies. The twelve countries that provide the empirical background for this study have all been under Fund programmes for at least some of the time since they initiated their transitions from plan to...

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Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies

Beck, Thorsten; Laeven, Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, we offer a political economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies. We identify dependence on natural resources and the historical experience of...

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Optimal Restructuring Under a Political Constraint: A General Equilibrium Approach

Dehejia, Vivek - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper considers the generalized second-best analytics of optimal restructuring under a political constraint, building on the modelling approach in Dehejia (1997). It is shown that the second-best optimum entails administering the terms-of-trade shock fully at the initiation of the reform,...

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