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EU Enlargement and Institutional Development: How Far Away Are the EU’s Balkan an Black Sea Neighbors?

Hammermann, Felix; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Institutional development in new and potential member countries determines the success of both the catching-up of …

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Investment behavior in dynamic computable general equilibrium models for transition economies

Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper suggests a method of approximating the development of investment in transition economies through an … investment in transition countries. In contrast to standard adjustment costs, which predict a sharp rise in investment due to the …

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Evolution of competition in Vietnam industries over the recent economic transition

Doan, Tinh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the … author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-cost margin (PCM …

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Strategisches Nachverhandeln zur Lösung von Anreizproblemen in unvollständigen Verträgen am Beispiel der Wohnungsprivatisierung nach dem Altschuldenhilfegesetz

Sander, Birgit - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Governments may draft contracts with market agents for allocating subsidies and pursuing specific policy goals. Contract enforcement via binding commitments is difficult, however, when exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (behavioural) risks interact. Analyzing the old debt compromise in...

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Trans-European-networks and the development of transport in the eastern Baltic Sea region

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

task has been widened so as to give support to the economies in transition (EIT) in Central and Eastern Europe that have … measures taken in the course of the TEN initiative in the field of transport for economic development of the EIT on the Eastern … transport from the perspective of fiscal federalism and of regional development aid for the EIT. Furthermore it refers to issues …

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Prospective Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … institutional development …

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East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper indicates that East Germany’s unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage adjustment after German reunification. We model the resulting labor market traps in a search and matching framework, show that they are difficult to overcome, and provide...

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Resource-Based Reluctance, Reversed Asymmetry, and Non-Trade Integration Incentives - Theory and Evidence from European Neighbourhood

Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation, especially with respect to trade. We develop a comprehensive theoretical concept for...

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Eastern Europe between Transition and Accession: An Analysis of Reform Requirements

Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

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Which Membership Matters? External vs. Internal Determinants of Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Drautzburg, Thorsten; Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Governance Indicators (WBGI) based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2005. We show that natural … development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the …

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