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quantitative analysis of mass privatization programs in the postcommunist world. We argue that rapid large-scale privatization … implementation of mass privatization programs negatively impacts measures of economic growth, state capacity and the security of …
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This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
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Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …
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groups. In this paper the focus is China’s efforts to build a world-class aircraft manufacturing industry. In the first half … largely discounted. Nowadays, as China strives to bear the ARJ-21 project to execution and even considers entering the market …
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Exploiting a unique data set containing transactions data from a panel of 769 Chinese state-owned enterprises between 1980 and 1989, this paper tests microeconomic implications of a pervasive form of corruption --official diversion of under-priced, in-plan goods to the market. Corruption has the...
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Using data from a recent survey of bank and enterprise managers and government officials in southern China, we present …
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principal targets of reforms, among SOEs, and better performing enterprises being more likely to be picked for privatization … better than those in which the majority of shares are owned privately. We find mixed evidence for the TVEs: privatization had …
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In 1994 China began a profound reform of its state-owned enterprises. We first describe and characterize this progress … in two areas: privatization of small state-owned enterprises at the county level and mass layoffs of excess state workers … sensible ways. We then argue that privatization, Chinese style, rests on an adequate economic and political foundation …
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Credit to the private sector has risen rapidly in European emerging markets but its risk evaluation has been largely neglected. Using retail-loan banking data from the Czech Republic we construct two credit risk models based on logistic regression and Classification and Regression Trees. Both...
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An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...
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