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We present a simple computable model of EC footwear production and trade coupled with a rudimentary production model for Eastern Europe. We simulate the liberalization of EC footwear imports from Eastern Europe as planned under the so-called Europe Agreements. We find that if Eastern Europe can...
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the insiders has produced little restructuring while on the other, state-owned enterprises have engaged in some … restructuring even in the absence of a clear prospect of privatization. It situates enterprise restructuring at the heart of the … of the speed and depth of restructuring, and clarifies the roles of managers, employees, the state, and banks in bringing …
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corporate restructuring. It emphasizes differences in the sequence in which reforms are undertaken in different countries. In … some countries, restructuring is being undertaken by the state before privatization; in some, restructuring is delegated to … preceding restructuring. The article suggests that the recent theoretical literature on corporate ownership and vertical …
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This paper adresses the issue of the optimal speed of economy-wide restructuring from a state-owned to a privately …
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framework is used to illustrate the relation between the budget deficit and the pace of restructuring, unemployment, and the …. Demands on governments to slow down restructuring mount, as well as demands for compensating transfers to groups affected by … reforms. Thus governments face an important trade-off between fiscal targets and restructuring objectives. Together with …
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This paper constructs a simple model of the steel sector in Europe distinguishing eight West and two East European regions. It models the production of steel and also the various trade restrictions extant in 1992. It uses this model first to calculate the output and welfare effects of...
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The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs). There seems to be a general, if ill-defined, belief on the part of many policy-makers, and among some academics as well, that there is more to an RTA then the traditional gains from trade. This paper...
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We compare three theoretical explanations for the positive empirical relationship between importer income per capita and traded goods prices. A first explanation is that consumers with higher incomes demand higher quality goods with higher prices. A second explanation is that wealthier people...
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This paper investigates the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. We model theoretically the effects of real exchange rate changes on the optimal price and quantity responses of firms that export multiple products with heterogeneous levels...
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Analysing data on values and unit values of bilateral trade flows at a very detailed level (some 10,000 product items), we examine the nature of intra-EC trade over the period 1980-94, identify its general determinants and then estimate the specific impact of the Single European Market...
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