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International comparisons and transfer of labour market institutions

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2002

International comparisons of labour market institutions and their transfer across boundaries have gained in importance. The paper deals with the question of the best way to proceed in making such comparisons. At the same time the question of the possibilities and limits to institutional transfer...

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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...

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Determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in transition economies : a latent class analysis

Poghosyan, Tigran (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2008

less efficient banks. This result is in line with the efficiency hypothesis. -- Cross-border bank acquisitions ; latent …

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe. There is no need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of economic convergence. National welfare states will be...

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Globalization and values

Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

This paper discusses a central element in globalization debate little addressed by economists, namely the interactions … at global, national, and community levels between globalization and societally based values. Social values refer to wider … stress on analytical comparative statics. Scenarios for how values can interact under globalization are discussed in the text. …

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Risk taking, limited liability and the competition of bank regulators

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001

Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank to undercapitalise and finance overly risky business projects. To counter this market failure, national governments have imposed solvency constraints on banks. However, these...

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The new systems competition

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001

to seek national efficiency, but national efficiency does not imply that systems competition will itself be efficient. …

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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

increased efficiency in the use of capital and other resources (intensive growth) as opposed to sheer accumulation of capital … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697476

How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 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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