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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002
The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...
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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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From fossil fuels to renewables : the role of electricity storage
Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016
, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
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Screening green innovation through carbon pricing
Ahlvik, Lassi; Van den Bijgaart, I. M. - 2022
Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value …. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly … subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device …
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Investment in productivity and the long-run effect of financial crises in output
Ridder, Maarten de - 2016
This paper analyzes the channels through which financial crises exert long-term negative effects on output. Recent models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap between pre-crisis trend and actual GDP. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573282
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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
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Ten years after : what is special about transition countries?
Gros, Daniel; Suhrcke, Marc - 2000
Most countries commonly classified as 'in transition' are st ill recognisably different from other countries with a similar income per capita in some respects: a larger share of their work force is in industry, they use more energy, they have a more extensive infrastructure and invest more in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781605
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Disorganization and financial collapse
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2000
Recently, Blanchard and Kremer (BK) argued that disorganization has led to the output decline in the former Soviet Union. In this paper we introduce liquidity and credit constraints into the BK model and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781618
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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...
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