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Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses
Nam, Chang Woon - 2013
Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian - 2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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International Fiscal Policy Coordination and GDP Comovement
Sly, Nicholas - 2013
Economic shocks often permeate borders generating comovement in nations' business cycles over time. We highlight the fact that fiscal policy coordination is an important avenue by which national economies become more integrated, influencing the transmission of macroeconomic shocks between...
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Egger, Hartmut - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
deregulation may lead to quality-improvements of pharmaceuticals, despite reducing price-setting power of pharmaceutical companies …
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of … deregulation increases training incidence …
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Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security : Political-Economy Effect
Razin, Assaf; Sand, Edith - 2021
The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...
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The Selection Effect and the Inflation-Output Variability Trade-Off
Kara, Engin - 2016
It has been shown that extending the Calvo model to account for the heterogeneity in price stickiness suggested by the micro-evidence significantly improves the performance of the model. In the new model, price-changing firms are chosen disproportionately from sectors with more flexible prices....
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