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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Lup, Dana - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been …

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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gehlbach, Scott - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...

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Investment and Saving in Russian Macroeconomy. Compilation and Analyses of an aggregated SAM for Russia, 1995

Nakamura, Yasushi - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1998

Assessing investment activity is a key to understanding the present Russian economy; the Russian official national accounts, however, do not give very much information on it because of their large statistical discrepancies. Using a matrix balancing method, we construct an aggregated Social...

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Where are the Real Bottlenecks? A Lagrangian Approach to Identifying Constraints on Growth from Subjective Survey Data

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2006

We use firm-level survey data from over 20,000 firms in about 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We develop a Lagrangian approach and measure the cost of different constraints by using managers' answers to survey questions on what aspects of their external environment...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: Cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Schaffer, Mark; Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008

process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on … by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition … of natural benchmarks. We find substantial evidence of convergence of transition countries with developed market …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labour markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

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Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...

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A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of …

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An Alternative Estimation Framework for Firm-Level Capital Investment

Fennema, Julian - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2006

Our understanding of the effect of investment-financing constraints in transition economies faces significant problems …

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Transition to the Market in Post-Communist Ukraine

Ishaq, M.; Hare, P.G. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

Ukraine became independent in 1991 and formally abandoned central planning. But the development of market methods of input supply and product distribution was impeded by continuing price distortions and the survival of various methods of administrative commodity allocation from the central...

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