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Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert …
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This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...
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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...
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member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …
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(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 …
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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...
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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 …
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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....
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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...
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the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …
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