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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...

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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep - 2009

"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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Labor market developments during economic transition

Rutkowski, Jan - 2006

"The paper reviews labor market developments in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. It argues that the scarcity of productive job opportunities and the growing labor market segmentation are the two main labor market problems facing the transition economies. In the European...

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The microeconomics of creating productive jobs : a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies

Earle, John S. - 2006

, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. The authors find that market reform has resulted in a large increase in the pace of job …

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Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004

Eschenbach, Felix - 2005

"Major changes have occurred in the structure of former centrally planned economies, including a sharp rise in the share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition economies with respect to services intensity and services...

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Fiscal federalism in Switzerland : relevant issues for transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe

Dafflon, Bernard - 2005

"Its highly fragmented structure of local governments and serious horizontal fiscal imbalances make Switzerland a surprisingly powerful model for Eastern European countries that are currently facing the challenge of fiscal decentralization. In spite of the substantial differences in the...

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The impact on Russia of WTO accession and the DOHA agenda : the importance of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services for growth and poverty reduct...

Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2005

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

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The impact of liberalizing barriers to foreign direct investment in services : the case of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization

Jensen, Jesper - 2004

questionnaires completed by specialized research institutes in Russia. The authors estimate that Russia will gain about 7.2 percent … estimate that the largest gains to Russia will derive from liberalization of barriers against multinational service providers …

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