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efficiency of higher education across countries, with a particular focus on Croatia and Slovenia. When estimating the efficiency … tertiary education. On the other hand, regardless of the input-output/outcome mix, the higher education system in Slovenia is …
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This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period by assessing the impact of the entry and presence of foreign firms on a domestic firm’s probability of exiting. The results confirm...
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in the nineties. This claim has been tested on the example of Slovenia. A regression analysis of time series shows that … there has been a positive effect on Slovenia’s exports into and a negative effect on its imports from the eurozone precisely …
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does not receive support in the ownership but the indicator of voucher privatization supports it. The initial conditions … from early 90's were not the driving the financial distress. The voucher-scheme privatization results in poorer corporate …
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We study bank discrimination against private firms in transition countries. Theoretically, we show that banks may discriminate for non-profit reasons, but this discrimination diminishes with a bank’s incentives and human capital. Employing matching bank-firm data from China, we empirically...
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We investigate whether competitive forces and privatization have yet began to play an efficiency-enhancing role in … conclude that privatization is having an impact on enterprise efficiency and restructuring but domestic market structure and …
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This paper considers the Russian privatization process through the end of voucher privatization and examines how its … impossible due to the dearth of reliable data, it is feasible to analyze the institutional features of Russian privatization in … terms of their effect on redistribution of wealth. The attempt is made to consider distributional effects of privatization …
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particular) where privatization is often opaque and businesspeople may receive property, but remain unwilling to use it … conducted in Russia in February 2005, I find that the original sin of an illegal privatization is difficult to expunge …
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According to leading economic theorists, creating capitalism out of communism requires rapid privatization. In this … article we empirically test the welfare implications of privatization policies in Post-Soviet countries by using cross …-national panel mortality data as an indicator of social costs. We find that rapid privatization – whether measured by a novel measure …
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Post-privatization restructuring of former state-owned enterprises (FSOEs) encompasses both shorter-run "defensive …
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