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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: Cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Schaffer, Mark; Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008

process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on … by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition … of natural benchmarks. We find substantial evidence of convergence of transition countries with developed market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518433

Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labour markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518435

Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...

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A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518450

An Alternative Estimation Framework for Firm-Level Capital Investment

Fennema, Julian - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2006

Our understanding of the effect of investment-financing constraints in transition economies faces significant problems …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649912

Transition to the Market in Post-Communist Ukraine

Ishaq, M.; Hare, P.G. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

Ukraine became independent in 1991 and formally abandoned central planning. But the development of market methods of input supply and product distribution was impeded by continuing price distortions and the survival of various methods of administrative commodity allocation from the central...

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Arrears as a Sign of Financial Repression in Transition Economies - The Case of Romania

Santarossa, Luoana D. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2001

This study looks at the signs of financial repression in a transition economy, by evaluating to what extent "perverse …

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Productivity, Ownership and the Investment Climate: International Lessons for Priorities in Serbia

Goldberg, Itzhak; Radulovic, Branko; Schaffer, Mark E. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2005

This article uses data on 27,000 firms from 50 countries, half of which are transition economies, together with the …

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The Great Transformation: Russia's Return to the World Economy

Hare, Paul; Schaffer, Mark; Shabunina, Anna - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2004

Since the 1998 financial crisis the Russian economy has been growing rapidly, and seems set to go on doing so in the coming years, recording healthy balance of trade surpluses and surpluses on the public sector accounts. At the same time, under President Putin, market-type reforms have gained...

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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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