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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464168
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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details
Persson, Torsten - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466677
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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?
Card, David - 2002
Beginning in 1979 with the newly electted Thatcher Government and continuing under successive Conservative and Labour Governments, the United Kingdom has embarked on a two-decade-long experiment in economic reform. We present evidence that the reform process has succeeded in making the UK more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469914
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Reforming the welfare state : recovery and beyond in Sweden
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Swedenborg, Birgitta (contributor) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851392
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Restructuring
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000112367
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China
Young, Alwyn - 2000
In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy which are freed from centralized control respond to the rent seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470915
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The Political Economy of Unilateral Trade Liberalization : The Case of Chile
Edwards, Sebastian - 1998
, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472294
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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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Contractibility and Asset Ownership : On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking
Baker, George P. - 2000
We investigate how the contractibility of actions affecting the value of an asset affects asset ownership. We examine this by testing how on-board computer (OBC) adoption affects truck ownership. We develop and test the proposition that adoption should lead to less ownership by drivers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471133