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A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing

Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Academic data sharing is a way for researchers to collaborate and thereby meet the needs of an increasingly complex research landscape. It enables researchers to verify results and to pursuit new research questions with “old” data. It is therefore not surprising that data sharing is...

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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

consisting of panel data collected before and after the so called "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. Our empirical approach tackles …

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Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformfortschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe

Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

Since the inception of transition Ukraine experienced an economic decline. Using indicators for the progress of … economic reforms in transition countries, it becomes evident that Ukraine belongs to a very small group of eastern European … this implementation together with the evaluation of Ukraine's macroeconomic performance give rise to the question as to …

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Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of liability maturity choice in transition markets. We formulate a model of firm value maximization that describes managers' choice of optimal debt structure. The theoretical predictions are tested using a unique panel of 4,300 Ukrainian firms during the...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

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

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Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis, dynamic panel GMM estimation, and quantile regression techniques to a panel of approximately 3,000 Ukrainian companies. The empirical results show a moderate level of profit...

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Innovation, Adoption, Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitova, Hanna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish themselves through computerization and organizational capital? We investigate the determinants of and returns to several types of investment, using a panel of over 40,000...

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Legacy from the Transition?: Alcohol Consumption by Young Adults in Ukraine

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The study analyses the effects of transition on the amount and patterns of alcohol consumption. We test the hypothesis of how far negative experiences induced by the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to drinking in the young generation of Ukrainians. We use data coming from the Ukrainian...

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: The Case of Ukraine

Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy; Zholud, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Our study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic model of a bank's value maximization that results in a negative relationship between loan to capital ratio and macroeconomic uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of...

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Why Do Firms Switch Their Main Bank?: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine

Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We examine why firms change their main bank and how this affects loans, interest payments and firm performance after switching. Using unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, the treatment effect estimates suggest that more transparent and riskier companies are more likely to switch their main...

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