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The transition economies : a NATREX evaluation of research

Stein, Jerome L. (contributor) - 2005

This paper applies the NATREX model of equilibrium exchange rates to evaluate several key studies of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) in general, with particular emphasis upon the Czech Republic and Hungary and with references to Poland and Bulgaria. On the basis of the NATREX...

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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia's break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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Privatizations spark socialist backlash : evidence from East Germany's transformation

Hager, Anselm; Hennicke, Moritz; Krause, Werner; … - 2022

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought the end of socialism, yet pro-socialist sentiment regained momentum surprisingly quickly across Eastern Europe. Why did voters move back to an ideology that was associated with unfree elections and lackluster economic performance? This paper points to...

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Changing tides for the welfare state : an essay

Lindbeck, Assar - 2002

It has turned out to be difficult to adjust welfare-state arrangements to new circumstances. This paper emphasizes developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in demography, productivity growth and international linkages...

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Economic-social interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008

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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success

Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021

-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. Protesters, those who helped to overthrow the socialist regime in the Peaceful …

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Volatility transmission in emerging European foreign exchange markets

Bubák, Vít; Kočenda, Evžen; Zikes, Filip - 2010

This paper studies the dynamics of volatility transmission between Central European currencies and euro/dollar foreign exchange using model-free estimates of daily exchange rate volatility based on intraday data. We formulate a flexible yet parsimonious parametric model in which the daily...

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The VARying effect of foreign shocks in Central and Eastern Europe

Jiménez-Rodríguez, Rebeca; Morales Zumaquero, Amalia; … - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production shocks - on key macroeconomic variables in ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by using near-VAR models and monthly data from the early 1990s to 2009. In contrast to...

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Financial dollarization and European Union membership

Neanidis, Kyriakos C. - 2010

We analyze the effect of European Union (EU) membership on financial dollarization for the Central and Eastern European countries. Using a unique monthly dataset that spans about two decades, we find that both the accession process toward EU membership and EU entry have a direct impact on...

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