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Most empirical studies on price setting that use micro data focus on advanced industrial countries. In this paper we analyze the experience of an emerging economy, Slovakia, using a large micro-level dataset that accounts for a substantial part of the consumer price index (about 5 million...
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ITransition started by a sudden collapse of corporate efficiency, as one important element of the transformational recession. It was followed by a consolidation period, with rapidly increasing efficiency and improving returns to scale. During this period performance was frequently improved by...
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profitability using new data on Russia that allow us to overcome the endogeneity problem of market structure and expand on the … are persistent in the long run. And we find for Russia that capital intensity is negatively related to profitability …
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Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
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Only a successful implementation of an overall reform program will enable Russian banks to provide financial intermediation and assist in the country's development from a nascent market economy to a mature financial system. The chances for reform are better now than at any time during the last...
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The reasons why small business development has been disappointing in Russia compared with other transition countries …
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contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159 software entrepreneurs in Beijing and Moscow, the study found that …
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There is a widespread opinion that goods, especially foods, and services in Russia are very cheap as compared to the US … in Russia. A comparison of Russian actual prices for foods with those in the US evidences that they are comparable …
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operating in Russia. Based on a large-scale empirical study of 179 firms and four in-depth case studies, this study examines the …
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