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western German producers - with respect to product quality and product markets as well as with respect to technological and …
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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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obsolete capital stock and overmanning, insufficient product quality that does not satisfy demand, distorted specialization …
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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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have made considerable progress. Eastern Germany's growth is moving towards the double digits, just like growth in the …
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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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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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based on the NIS Approach and the New Growth Theory. Empirical study is further made with the Panel Data Analysis (PDA) and … to the NIS approach and New Growth Theory; (3) Enterprises innovation activities are of key importance to the NIS. To … level and high natural resources dependency in common, which is determined by their developing stage and extensive growth …
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terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local …, through a comparison of social welfare given the strategies chosen by the locals governments, that whatever the quality of the …
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If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal … of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key … determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both …
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