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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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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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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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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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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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Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...

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Can EU Conditionality Remedy Soft Budget Constraints in Transition Countries?

Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Weise, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Soft budget constraints (SBCs) are a persistent feature of transition economies and have been blamed for i.a. a lack of …

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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This...

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Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment

Frank, Björn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...

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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite comparably low returns and high risk? This paper connects several streams of literature to shed some light on this puzzle and suggests possible future research avenues. Key...

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