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Financial Development and Employment: Evidence from Transition Countries

Schäfer, Dorothea; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Enterprise Performance Survey covering transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use firm size as a proxy for …

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Modelling the Structural Change of Transition Countries

Thießen, Ulrich; Gregory, Paul R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The rapid changes in the transition economies must be evaluated in a comparative context. This paper provides a … extent and speed with which the structures of the transition economies are converging towards other country groups ranked … according to income levels. This exercise provides an alternate measure of transition "success" which is grounded in …

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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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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Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition Economy: Regional and Industry-Wide Investments and Firm-Level Exports in Ukrainian Manufacturing

Lutz, Stefan; Talavera, Oleksandr; Park, Sang-Min - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We investigate the effects of regional and industry-wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …

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Efficiency Analysis of East European Electricity Distribution in Transition: Legacy of the Past?

Cullmann, Astrid; Apfelbeck, Jürgen; Hirschhausen, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

transition countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). We compare the relative technical efficiency of East …

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From Transition to Competition: Dynamic Efficiency Analysis of Polish Electricity Distribution Companies

Cullmann, Astrid; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of … that the technical efficiency of the companies has indeed increased during the transition, while allocative efficiency has …

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Fiscal Federalism: Normative Criteria for Evaluations, Developments in Selected OECD Countries, and Empirical Evidence for Russia

Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Criteria for evaluation of systems of fiscal federalism are derived from the current state of the theory of fiscal federalism. In a second step we provide an overview of developments of fiscal federalism systems in OECD countries highlighting some existing trends. Third, an overview of Russia's...

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Power Utility Re-regulation in East European and CIS Transformation Countries (1990-1999): An Institutional Interpretation

Hirschhausen, Christian von; Opitz, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...

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