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The Shadow Economy in OECD Countries: Panel-Data Evidence

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, the extent of the shadow economy in OECD countries is investigated. The estimates of the size of the shadow economy are obtained using the panel-data techniques applied to the data on 38 OECD member states over the period 1991-2007. Our estimates tend to be somewhat lower than the...

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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The Shadow Economy in International Comparison: Options for Economic Policy Derived from an OECD Panel Analysis

Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Building on new behavioral and institutional theories, using a data set of about 450 variables and augmenting the Sala-i-Martin definition of robustness, we find evidence in support of the hypothesis that the standard causes of the shadow economy (SE), taxes, the administrative burden and labor...

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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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