We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …

question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during …

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …