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The purpose of this paper is to suggest how institutions can be created and modified to devise and implement industrial policy in the emerging market economies. Two main issues confronting industrial policy institutions are how to avoid regulatory capture, that is, having those policy-makers...
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interaction within the supply-chain (i.e. with suppliers and customers) or not (with competitors). It further controls for the … the supply chain tend to be irrelevant for innovation, with frequent exchanges with competitors having a detrimental …
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Our focus in this paper is macroeconomic policy in the countries of Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. All four are committed to joining the European Union. Accordingly, their macroeconomic policies need to put them on a credible path towards meeting the entry...
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This paper evaluates the robustness of trade liberalization in Central Europe and the role of the Europe Agreements (EAs) in institutionalizing this process. It finds a) that institutions are still fragile in Central Europe; b) that the EAs are not a great force for liberalism (on either side);...
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In spite of their relative vicinity Scandinavian countries and Central European countries (mainly Germany) have substantially different schooling institutions. While the former group of countries delays school tracking until age 16, the latter group anticipates differentiation between age 10 and...
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This paper interprets the existing evidence on enterprise restructuring in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Despite differences in restructuring policies, the pattern of observed restructuring appears similar in the three countries. Contrary to initial expectations, managers of SOEs have...
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Parliament) and aristocratic titles (e.g., lords)--on the boards of directors of English and Welsh banks from 1879-1909 to … corroborates this finding, showing that a bank’s shares exhibited negative abnormal returns when their directors were elected to …
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and banks. Finally, we find spillover effects in particular from sovereigns in the euro area periphery to the core …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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This paper reports estimates of the long-run costs and benefits of banks funding more of their assets with loss … of the benefits from having banks use more equity no estimate of costs--however accurate--can tell us what the optimal … level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …
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