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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292576

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292578

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292584

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518439

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

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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