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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective

Estrin, Saul; Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …’s institutional environment is important to explain its relatively low levels of entrepreneurship development, where the latter is …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Evžen Ko?enda; Svejnar, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve...

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Ownership and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Svejnar, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that concentrated foreign ownership improves economic performance, but domestic...

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The Effect of Employee Involvment on Firm Performance: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

We provide some of the most reliable evidence to date on the direct impact of employee involvement through participatory arrangements such as teams on business performance. The data we use are extraordinary --daily data for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single...

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The Effects of Ownership Forms and Concentration on Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Svejnar, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We reject the hypothesis that domestic or foreign private ownership, in either moderate or...

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EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MILITARY SPENDING & HUMAN RIGHTS PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH ASIA

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Pathmalal, K K Shakya … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically underdeveloped. Seeking to fulfill this existing gap in the literature, we examine the effects of militarization on human rights...

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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...

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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence From the Transition Economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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