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Trends in East European Factor Productivity
Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005
the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated … Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania and somewhat lower, but still respectable (3 - 5 per cent) in the case of Poland and Hungary. It … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125000
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556647
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A Quarterly Econometric Model of the Slovenian Economy
Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2005
The article represents a construction of a quarterly econometric model of the Slovenian economy and an analysis of fundamental relationships of the Slovenian economy. For this purpose we formed a system of identities, consistent with the national accounts, and of stochastic equations, consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556377
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Perception of Income Satisfaction: An Analysis of Slovenian Households
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2004
Three comparable cross-section household datasets, relating to 1988, 1993 and 1997-1999 are used to analyse income satisfaction in Slovenian households. The ordered probit model is used to estimate the effects of ‘objective’ variables, such as actual disposable household income and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561525
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Sustainability of the Slovenian Pension System: An Analysis with an Overlapping-generations General Equilibrium Model
Verbic, Miroslav; Majcen, Boris; Nieuwkoop, Renger van - EconWPA - 2005
The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of macroeconomic effects of the Slovenian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125636
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Wage and Income Inequality in Slovenia, 1993-2002
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyses the dynamics of wage and income inequality in Slovenia from 1993 to 2002, using two different data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125991
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Pension Reform in a Highly Informalized Post-Soviet Economy
Dobronogov, Anton; Mayhew, Les - EconWPA - 2000
Pension reform is now on the national agenda in most post-Soviet countries. These countries have highly informalized economies, which means that large areas of economic activity go unreported to the authorities. This paper deals with the problem of pension reform in a highly informalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408432
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On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries
Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2002
The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062581
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Personal Income Tax Reform and Revenue Potential in Transition
Bogetic, Zeljko; Hassan, Fareed - EconWPA - 2005
The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure … prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of income. The paper shows that Bulgaria can …. Subsequently in the 1990s, Bulgaria implemented an income tax reform similar to the one advocated in this paper. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560954
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Collateral, Access to Credit, and Investment in Bulgaria, chap. 8 in D. Jones and J. Miller (eds) THE BULGARIAN ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM REFORM DURING EARLY TRANSITION, Ashgate 97.
Bogetic, Zeljko - EconWPA - 2005
The paper measures economic loss from the problem of inadequate collateral in Bulgaria and proposes solutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561596