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Courts in a transition economy : case disposition and the quantity-quality tradeoff in Bulgaria
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Slavov, Atanas - 2015
. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498609
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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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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. -- Currency Board ; Bulgaria ; monetary shocks ; ECB interest rate ; FED …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012188
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Trade, wage gaps, and specific human capital accumulation
Long, Ngo Van; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2003
We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-specific skills, by on-the-job training, knowing that this means their future wages will have to be negotiated, and that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507687
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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes
Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016
Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522137
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State-owned enterprises, shirking and trade liberalization
Madanmohan, Ghosh; Whalley, John - 2000
We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781577
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Monopsonistic labor markets and international trade
Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2019
This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the presence of monopsonistic labor markets. The interaction of firm heterogeneity in productivity with idiosyncratic preferences of workers for working at different firms generates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040085
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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on firms that do not directly import therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138753
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Globalization and taxation : theory and evidence
Jha, Priyaranjan; Gozgor, Giray - 2019
We construct a theoretical model to capture the compensation and efficiency effects of globalization in a set up where the redistributive tax rate is chosen by the median voter. The model predicts that the two alternative modes of globalization- trade liberalization and financial openness- could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996405
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Trade tariff, wage gap and public spending
Giuranno, Michele; Nocco, Antonella - 2019
This paper studies the interplay between the wage gap and government spending in a small open economy facing a shock in trade policy. We consider a specific factor model with an export sector, which uses skilled labour, and an import-competing sector, which uses unskilled labour. We find the...
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