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Agricultural Transformation and Implications for Designing Rural Financial Policies in Romania

Heidues, Franz; Davis, Junior R.; Schrieder, Gertrud - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

In the context of Romania's macroeconomic and agricultural transformation, this paper analyses the current extent of the depth of rural finance and discusses the implications for the future development of rural financial markets in Romania. The overall agricultural support system is reviewed...

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Restructuring the Russian Economy: Problems and Tendencies

Ivashchenko, Natalija; Savchenko, Irina - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

This paper reviews recent developments and progress in the restructuring of the Russian economy. Great emphasis is placed on industrial policy and creating the necessary legal and regulatory framework to enable the development of new enterprises, markets and the restructuring of existing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292577

The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2005

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for pre-privatization...

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Setting the Stage for Stability and Progress in Southeast Europe

Hare, Paul G. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2003

Politically, the eight Southeast European countries have been less stable than those countries in Central Europe and the Baltics which are on track for EU Accession in 2004. The former countries have achieved generally poorer economic performance since 1990, and their economic reforms have also...

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Wage determination and wage inequality inside a Russian firm in late transition: Evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2007

transition. Our findings indicate that remuneration is not predetermined by formal rules and a stable institutionalized structure …

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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

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Higher Education in Transition to a Market Economy: A Case Study

Hare, Paul G; Lugachyov, Mikhail - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

This paper reports on the situation in Russian higher education since the start of transition, and presents a case …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187385

Corruption, Productivity and Transition

Wyatt, Geoffrey - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2002

The level of productivity is correlated across countries with measures of (lack of) corruption, but this appears to be due to a common association of these variables with measures of social infrastructure, here measured by a combination of governance indexes labelled "rule of law" and...

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Currency Board and Debt Trap: Evidence from Argentina and Relevance for Estonia

Gurtner, Francois - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2002

This paper analyses the November 2000 liquidity crisis that brought Argentina near default on its foreign debt. The main purpose of this paper is to assess whether this crisis may be taken as a warning signal for Estonia, given the similar exchange-rate system shared by the two countries. It...

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Institutions and Diversification of the Economies in Transition: Policy Challenges

Hare, Paul G. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008

Diversification, especially in the context of small, highly trade-dependent economies, has recently become quite a fashionable topic, and something that increasingly commonly forms part of the policy advice offered to low- and middle-income countries seeking to improve their economic conditions...

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