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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377261
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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in … already visible in many socio-economic characteristics in pre-World War II data. Second, World War II and the subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177137
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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that ‘communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance. …
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
communism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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Modeling institutions, start-ups and productivity during transition
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2010
The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938148
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Real exchange rates in small open OECD and transition economies : comparing apples with oranges?
Égert, Balázs (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496465
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Asymmetry in volatility : a comparison of developed and transition stock markets
Wdowinski, Piotr; Malecka, Marta - 2010
ARCH modelling framework of Engle (1982) and its GARCH generalization of Bollerslev (1986) gave a huge impetus to econometric model building in the field of financial time series with time-varying variance. The main idea of the models was to describe the most typical features of capital markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942099
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all variants. Second, we find that neither free trade nor the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398110
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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400868
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Dollarization of deposits in the short and long run : evidence from CESE countries
Urosevic, Branko; Rajkovic, Ivana - 2016
In this paper, we study the drivers of permanent and transitory deposit dollarization for a sample of CESE countries using panel cointegration techniques. The results suggest that a positive cointegration relationship exists between permanent dollarization and Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421680