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Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing Performance with an EU Benchmark

Loecker, Jan De - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002

The process of the East-West integration has come to a point that enlargement appears inevitable. But are these countries really ready to join the EU in terms of competitive performance? Firstly, we construct a virtual best practice production frontier for .rms active in a European Union member...

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Is there a Lower Bound to the Firm Size Distribution Comparing Transition Economies with an Established Market Economy

Hutchinson, John - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2003

We apply Suttons (1998) framework to compare the firm size distribution of two transition economies, Slovenia and …

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Gross Job Flows in Transition Countries: Results from Company Accounts Data for Bulgaria, Estonia and Romania

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1998

regions is used. We find that gross job destruction dominates job creation, but the latter is picking up as transition …

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Comparing the Impact of Credit Constraints on the Growth of SMEs in a Transition Country with an Established Market Economy

Hutchinson, John; Xavier, Ana - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004

In this paper we compare the role of internal finance on the growth of firms between a leading transition country …

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Budget Constraints and Profitability: Evidence from a Transition Economy

Rizov, Marian - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002

and its impact on profitability in transition economies. The results from the switching regression suggest that the …

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Firm Growth and Survival in a Transition Country: Micro Evidence from Slovenia

Konings, Jozef; Xavier, Ana - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of firm survival and growth in Slovenia, a country in transition from a plan … are used to estimate a basic model of firm growth adjusted to analyse the specific context of transition. The performance … of Slovenian firms that survived from 1994 until 1998 is studied using firm and industry pre-transition conditions so as …

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Cultural Differences, Assimilation and Behavior: Player Nationality and Penalties in Football

Luca, Giacomo De; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Jo - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2011

We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on violence on the football field of southern European and nothern European football players in the English Premier League. We find that southern European football players collect on average more football...

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How do Heterogeneous Social Interactions affect the Peer Effect in Rural-Urban Migration?:Empirical Evidence from China

Chen, Zhao; Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

In this paper, we use the ?002 Chinese Household Income Project Survey?(CHIPS2002) data to examine how heterogeneous social interactions affect the peer effect in the rural-urban migration decision in China. We find that the peer effect, measured by the village migration ratio, significantly...

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When Drains and Gains Coincide: Migration and International Football Performance

Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2010

We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance due to superior skills acquired by players choosing to...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Labour Demand in Slovenia

Bojnec, Stefan; Konings, Jozef - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1998

gross job flows and labour demand in the transition period in Slovenia. We find that job destruction dominates job creation … in the early years of transition, but later in the transition job destruction diminishes. The excess job reallocation …

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