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considered as in transition to a full market economy, and that of the present EU members. The raw data shows some evidence of … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters …
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We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition … transition and recession was over. Our analysis suggests that an advantage of mass privatisation was that it led spontaneously to …
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the transition? Or is it rather a result of more stringent environmental policy? The objective of the article is to answer … explanation and further prediction of pollution reduction in transition economies. …
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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …
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both self-similarity (how the export composition of a CEEC has changed with respect to the beginning of the transition … exports of transition countries, and (2) that greater economic integration in terms of trade flows and processing trade does …
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Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature...
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The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...
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