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Market Power, Competition and Ownership in Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef; Cayseele, Patrick Van; Warzynsi, Frederic - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2001
transition countries, Bulgaria and Romania. We use an extensive dataset of more than 3000 firms and sector level information to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590811
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On the Evolution of Size and Productivity in Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing Firms
Polanec, Saso - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004
distributions during the process of transition. These facts are based on the data for all Slovenian manufacturing firms active … between 1994 and 2003. Stylized picture of transition can be summarized as follows. Initially, we can distinguish between two … productivity growth rates and thus gradually lost their advantage. Commonly held view of transition as a process of reallocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449573
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The Effects of Privatization and Competitive Pressure on Firms?Price-cost Margins: Micro Evidence from Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef; Cayseele, Patrick Van; Warzynski, Frederic - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002
This paper uses representative firm level panel data of 1,701 Bulgarian and 2,047 Romanian manufacturing firms to estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. In contrast to earlier work that analyzes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449575
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Does Protection Harden Budget Constraints?
Everaert, Greetje; Vandenbussche, Hylke - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2001
In this paper we analyse the effects of soft budget constraints in an international context. Firstly, we show that soft budget constraints in an exporting country lead to higher levels of trade protection in the recipient country. Secondly, the model predicts that protectionist trade policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163365
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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment into the CEECs: New Evidence from Sectoral Patterns
Resmini, Laura - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1999
been found between FDI and market size, wage differential, the stage of the transition process and the degree of openness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163379
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Labour mobility during transition: evidence from Georgia
Sabine Bernab?; Stampini, Marco - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008
This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163384
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On the Causes of Soft Budget Constraints: Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Everaert, Greetje; Hildebrandt, Antje - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2001
Several theoretical explanations for the presence of soft budget constraints have recently been put forward in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test these theories on the causes of soft budget constraints. We therefore use a panel data set, consisting of company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163404
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Social Security and Retirement during Transition:Microeconometric Evidence from Slovenia
Ale?Ahcan; Polanec, Saso - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008
reflected in predominantly negative values of accruals, and to transition-specific increase in wage inequality in the late 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163410
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Rural Poverty in Transition Countries
Macours, Karen; Swinnen, Johan - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2006
-urban poverty differences in 23 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The paper presents a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163418
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Price Liberalization and Output Decline in Transition
Polanec, Saso - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004
early years of transition process. The prevalent explanations, commonly found under the title of disorganisation, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163422