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This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as proxied by the Z-score and the Merton’s distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004-2008 period. Banks are special in that ‘good’...
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Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of …
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We analyse investment behaviour of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in … ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …
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transition and market economies. The Czech Republic's mass-privatization program provides an unique opportunity to investigate … influence on the resulting ownership structure. For a cross-section of 706 Czech firms over the period 1992 through 1997, we …
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In this paper we provide a comparative analysis of the extent and determinants of labour mobility in the Czech Republic … resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labour. We find the Czech …
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A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … policies (ALMPs), in particular the extensive use of ALMP instruments and an effective delivery system. Using a large panel of …
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic … Czech Republic throughout 1992-2000. We also find in both countries that domestic firms in industries with a greater share … of foreign firms are falling behind more than domestic firms in industries with a smaller foreign presence. In the Czech …
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advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … benefit from these policies and catch up. Using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in each country, we … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …
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effects and this performance link using an unbalanced panel of Czech firms for the years 1993 to 1998. It considers state …
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The increase in dispersion of regional unemployment in the Czech Republic, despite low overall joblessness, is … suggestive of low labour mobility. At the same time, standard matching functions estimated with district level panel data exhibit …
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