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Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Tale of Twins

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper uses a survey of 1062 Czechs and 524 Slovaks to ask why people evade taxes. We maintain that the Czech and Slovak Republics are “twins” separated at birth and that divergences between these countries since their separation in 1992 can explain divergences in their rates of...

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The Evolution of Tax Evasion in the Czech Republic: A Markov Chain Analysis

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

We use a dataset of 1062 individuals from the Czech Republic to forecast the evolution of tax evasion in that country. We ask each respondent how intensely (never, sometimes, often) he evaded taxes in 1995, 1999, and 2000, to calculate probabilities the average individual will move between these...

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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that an individual may evade taxes in part if he believes he is receiving substandard government services. We suggest that an individual’s evaluation of the quality of government...

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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition

Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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The Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Czech Koruna

Melecky, Martin; Komarek, Lubos - EconWPA - 2005

The behavioural equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) model of the Czech koruna is derived in this paper and estimated by three methods suitable for non-stationary time series. The considered potential determinants of the real equilibrium exchange rate are the productivity differential, the interest...

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Privatizing Profits of Bulgaria's State Enterprises, TRANSITION newsletter about transition economies, The World Bank, Vol. 6, No.3, March 1995.

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005

The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.

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Damage Valuation of Indirect Expropriation in Public Services

Abdala, Manuel A.; Spiller, Pablo T. - EconWPA - 2005

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Ownership Concentration and Restructuring in Czech Manufacturing Sector

Vychodil, Ondrej - EconWPA - 2005

manufacturing sector after privatization. It starts with the argumentation that the most important actors in the post-privatization … ownership structure in the Czech Republic were investment privatization funds, followed by the state, and that the ‘rules of the … leads to the hypothesis that the concentration-restructuring function in the post- privatization Czech environment is …

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Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004

We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly … spinoffs increase the firmâ€™s profitability but do not alter its scale of operations, while the effect of privatization … consistent with tunneling (looting) by managers or (partial) owners. The effects of privatization are hence much less clear …

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