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Income Inequality and Growth in Transition Economies: Are Nonlinear Models Needed?

Wan, Guanghua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002

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Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business … resulting inequality as crony bias in the political system that can be measured at both the firm and country level. We examine … consistent pattern in which the inequality of influence has a strongly negative impact on assessments of public institutions that …

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...

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Measuring Governance, Corruption and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel; … - EconWPA - 2003

Recent studies have focussed on the characteristics and policies of the state to explain the extent and causes of corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and national governance have been unexplored. This paper...

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Openness and Growth in Central-Eastern European Countries

Capolupo, Rosa; Celi, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005

We present evidence of the relationship between trade-openness and growth in the sample of former communist countries before and after the transition from a central planned economy (CPE) to a market economy by applying standard OLS and panel estimation techniques. The main finding is that during...

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Choice of ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from Estonia

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mygind, Niels - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we use rich panel data for a representative sample of Estonian enterprises to analyse diverse issues related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation. A key focus is to determine whether ownership changes are related to economic...

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The Czech Transition: The Importance of Microeconomic Fundamentals

Svejnar, Jan; Uvalic, Milica - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

We examine the case of the Czech Republic, which has been frequently cited as one of the most successful cases of transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Despite the costs related to the break-up of Czechoslovakia in late 1992 and 1993, the immediate consequences were quickly...

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Financing Development in the UNECE Emerging Markets

Shelburne, Robert - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

This essay discusses the challenges in financing economic development in the eastern European and CIS economies. The advantages and pitfalls of extensively relying external capital are explored.

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Corruption and entrepreneurship: does gender matter?

Trentini, Claudia; Koparanova, Malinka - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2013

Corruption is a significant factor which determines the quality of the “doing business” environment at large. The aim of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of entrepreneurs’ corrupt behavior by looking at two questions: (1) does gender matter in corrupt behavior and (2) can...

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Financial Sector Structure and Financial Crisis Burden: A Model Based on the Russian Default of 1998

Mavrotas, George; Vinogradov, Dmitri - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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