Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine … distributions for university and secondary school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns …

Romania), of two CIS economies (Russia and Ukraine) and of Turkey. A systematic approach in terms of different time horizons …-specific factors. For Russia, a first look is taken at the Dutch Disease phenomenon as a possible driving force behind equilibrium …

transparency. It then focuses on the National Fund for the Future of Kazakhstan (the “oil fund”, or NOF) and Samruk Kazyna (SK …

This paper aims to investigate the demand for money in Kazakhstan. This study covers the period starting from 2000 … adjustable exchange rate regime before exchange rate crisis in Kazakhstan in 1999) to 2007:12 as recent available data for … applied by National Bank of Kazakhstan. Besides, there was reversal of currency in Kazakhstan over the period under the …

Union have categorized Kazakhstan differently with regard to its degree of transition. The United States removed “non market … economy” status from Kazakhstan, whereas the EU gave Kazakhstan an intermediate status. The first question that this work asks …? By creating unique criteria sets from several papers, can one say that, according to any set, Kazakhstan is a market …

Decentralization can complement market liberalization by strengthening incentives of agents to exploit local … the mid-1990s. We offer a new theory of financial decentralization in which centralization provides a credible commitment … empirically assess the determinants of decentralization and the likelihood of collateral seizure, strongly confirming the …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a data set of more than 2200 …