This paper shows that an advertising ban is more likely to increase – rather than decrease – total consumption when … advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation … (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

This Paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique dataset of more than … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460m and 580m U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …

increases advertising clutter (leading to a potential downward spiral), may reduce total welfare and content quality, and can …

We compare the advertising intensity and content of programming in a market with competing media platforms. With pay …-tv media platforms have two sources of revenues, advertising revenues and revenues from viewers. With free-to-air media … platforms receive all revenues from advertising. We show that if viewers strongly dislike advertising, the advertising intensity …