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Albania. We study the impact of implementation of the Stablization and Association Agreement, free trade agreements with South … indicate that Albania has a lot to gain from further integration with its neighbors and the EU. However, the benefits from … regional integration can only be realized as long as Albania gains better access for its exports on regional markets …
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The paper focuses on the question whether banks and capital markets in Central Europe are capable of exerting a positive influence on enterprise performance at the present stage of the economic transformation. These markets are characterised by privileged, collaborative interfirm/interbank...
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Long-term care (LTC) in the new EU member states, which used to belong to the former socialist countries, is not yet a legally separated sector of social security. However, the aging dynamics are more intensive in these states than in the old EU member states. This paper analyses the process of...
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At the point of introducing economic reforms in 1990 aimed at the transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy, Polish agriculture was in a different situation than other branches of the national economy. The paper provides an analyses of the economic transition experienced by the...
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The paper examines neoclassical measures to evaluate government policy in transition countries: 1) marginal factor prices and the return to capital, 2) growth rates and taxes, 3) inflation rates, and 4) debt/GDP ratios, related to international real business cycle and endogenous growth theory....
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Article discuss among others the Pazos-Simonsen Mechanism - short term wage controls as a means of abrogating existing wage contracts, short serm wage controls as a mechanism for co-ordinatingexpectations and short term wage controls in semi-heterodox stabilization programmes as well as medium...
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Enterprises in post-communist economies have been subject to a wide range of shocks as the old economic order has been swept away. It has been claimed that among the most important of these shocks have been: elimination of soft budget constraints, foreign trade shocks, and over-devaluation. The...
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This paper explores the methods that the Ukrainian government (supported by international technical assistance providers) is developing to minimize the probability of a damaging, systemic banking crisis. The contention is that with highly lucrative existing sources of income for banks receding...
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This paper focuses on the measurement of a contemporaneous currency crisis. The analysis covers 14 "emerging" or "transforming" economies that experienced episodes of currency crises over the last decade. It adds to well-known examples relatively littleknown evidence on the crisis depth in some...
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