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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries
Pal, Sarmistha - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195528
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2008
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652694
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310965
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452319
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …. -- Poverty ; Transition ; survey ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646700
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Informal employment relationships and labor market segmentation in transition economies: evidence from Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor);  … - 2007
new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some … empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and the validity of the three schools of thought in the literature on the … associated with movements into this state. -- Labor market segmentation ; transition economies ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652672
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The Russian-Ukrainian earnings divide
Constant, Amelie (contributor); Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006
between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians throughout Ukraine's transition era. We establish that language rather than nationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003472841
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The Russian-Ukrainian political divide
Constant, Amelie (contributor); Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006
Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523478
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The persistence of informality : evidence from panel data
Akay, Alpaslan; Khamis, Melanie - 2011
Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522496