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Corporate restructuring and export performance in the transition process: The case of Eastern Germany

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

Economic restructuring in the transition from plan to market concerns the way enterprises try to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises have to decide where to compete, that is to say with which product they should enter which markets, and how to compete, that is by which strategy...

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Labour markets in Poland and Hungary five years from the start of transition: Evidence from monthly data

Brauer, Holger; Falk, Martin; Raiser, Martin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

This paper presents error correction estimates of a simple interdependent model of the labour market using monthly data over 1990-1994 for the industrial sector in Poland and Hungary. The aim is to investigate three issues in the performance of labour markets during transition. First, is there a...

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Restructuring and competitiveness in the transition process: Evidence from an Eastern German firm panel

Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

In a transforming economy there is a common legacy of most companies: their low competitiveness as the result of an obsolete capital stock and overmanning, insufficient product quality that does not satisfy demand, distorted specialization patterns, high and partly ill-designed integration,...

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Emerging East-West corporate networks in Central European border regions: Some theoretical arguments and stylized facts

Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Economic re-integration after a long period of separation among countries with different levels of development is expected to start in border regions. Enterprises along the borderline can gain a rent due to low transport and transaction costs. They benefit from the fortunate opportunity of...

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German unification: A progress report

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

In the five years after unification, efforts to bring up the eastern part of Germany to the level of the western one have made considerable progress. Eastern Germany's growth is moving towards the double digits, just like growth in the Pacific Rim region. But not all things have developed as...

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Privatization in East Germany: Can the Treuhandanstalt provide a model?

Gupta, Asha - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The dynamics of privatization in the Eastern Germany can be better understood in terms of the 'economic polities' applied to the 'political markets'. The Treuhandanstalt played a key role in transforming the entire economy of the former GDR into the market economy in the wake of unification of...

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On the competitive position of Eastern German manufacturing: Why is catching-up so slow?

Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

Seven years after the transition from plan to market, it is hard to summon up much enthusiasm for the results of active restructuring of the eastern German economy. Although companies have made considerable efforts to reach the efficiency level of their western German counterparts, the gap is...

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Factors affecting the efficiency of the BRICSs' national innovation systems: A comparative study based on DEA and Panel Data Analysis

Cai, Yuezhou - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Efficiency scores of the National Innovation System (NIS) for 22 countries, including the BRICS, G7, are calculated with the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Relevant factors that may affect the innovation system efficiency are summarized based on the NIS Approach and the New Growth Theory....

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Do large recessions reduce output permanently?

Hosseinkouchack, Mehdi; Wolters, Maik - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile … autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP have permanent or temporary effects. In contrast to earlier studies … root hypothesis at the conditional mean of GDP, but also in the tails of the distribution where the lower tail corresponds …

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The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock

Challet, Damien; Solomon, Sorin; Yaari, Gur - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

product (GDP) in current and constant dollars of many countries during the times of recession and recovery. We then argue that …

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