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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 …
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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....
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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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transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of …
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Our understanding of the effect of investment-financing constraints in transition economies faces significant problems …
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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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This study looks at the signs of financial repression in a transition economy, by evaluating to what extent "perverse …
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This article uses data on 27,000 firms from 50 countries, half of which are transition economies, together with the …
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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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transition. Our findings indicate that remuneration is not predetermined by formal rules and a stable institutionalized structure …
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