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Participation Behaviour of East German Women After German Unification
Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The Paper studies the determinants of labour force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of preferences on labour force participation from individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124026
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The Output Decline in Central and Eastern Europe: A Classical Explanation
Bofinger, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
The paper discusses the strong output decline in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It starts from the puzzling observation that the former CSFR, Hungary and Poland experienced a relatively similar decline in output in spite of completely different stabilization and transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123537
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Banking Passivity and Regulatory Failure in Emerging Markets: Theory and Evidence from the Czech Republic
Hanousek, Jan; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We present a model of bank passivity and regulatory failure. Banks with low equity positions have more incentives to be passive in liquidating bad loans. We show that they tend to hide distress from regulatory authorities and are ready to offer a higher rate of interest in order to attract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123959
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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle
Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
(ICT). But why have the same technologies not similarly increased Europe's labour productivity? This paper provides a … improvement in the ICT can yield significant increases in labour productivity if - and only if - the organization is drastically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124167
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European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview
Crafts, Nicholas; Toniolo, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper surveys the extensive literature on European economic growth since 1950. It presents an overview of comparative growth performance together with benchmarked growth accounting estimates. The growth experience is considered in terms of three periods, the Golden Age of 1950-73, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124329
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Together but Apart: ICT and Productivity Growth in Israel
Lach, Saul; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … the success of the ICT sector. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on these twin developments. We use newly … constructed data on industry-level ICT investments between 1990 and 2003 and estimate production functions for manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124405
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084334
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Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries
Brown, Martin; Jappelli, Tullio; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We investigate whether information sharing among banks has affected credit market performance in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, using a large sample of firm-level data. Our estimates show that information sharing is associated with improved availability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136657
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Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?
Dinger, Valeriya; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper we investigate whether banks that borrow from other banks have lower risk levels. We concentrate on a large sample of Central and Eastern European banks which allows us to explore the impact of interbank lending when exposures are long-term and interbank borrowers are small banks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504249
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On the Impact of Forward Contract Obligations in Multi-Unit Auctions
de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Fabra, Natalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Several regulatory authorities worldwide have recently imposed forward contract obligations on electricity producers as … bidding in electricity markets, or in any other auction-based market. For this purpose, we introduce forward contracts in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136602