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International Co-Operative Agreements in Hungary in the Mid-1990s : Evolution, Organisational Forms and Industry Characteristics

Havas, Attila - 2015

As the legislation on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Hungary has been probably the most liberal in Central and Eastern Europe since the mid-1980s, FDI is the primary form chosen by Western firms to enter the Hungarian market. The major channels of FDI include the privatisation of former...

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Формиране на човешкия капитал през комунизма: България

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The question raised in the present paper is: What is the human capital during the communism and which are the key political and economic determinants of its formation during this period? Firstly, a measurement of the human capital is conducted on the basis of quantitative educational indicators....

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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...

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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Is it true that communist countries had well-developed human capital, or is it just a myth? What were human capital stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We attempt to answer these questions using evidence from...

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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but...

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Social Transfers and Inequality During the Polish Transition

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

In general, most countries of the former Eastern bloc have experienced poor growth performance and large increases in income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been Poland, which has outstripped other transition...

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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...

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The symbiosis of towns and textiles: urban institutions and the changing fortunes of cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 - 1570

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This article, a contribution to the ‘proto-industrialisation’ debate, examines the relative advantages of urban and rural locations for cloth manufacturing in later-medieval England and the Low Countries. From the 11th to the mid-14th century, when the English cloth trade began its seemingly...

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The usury doctrine and urban public finances in late-medieval Flanders (1220 - 1550): rentes (annuities), excise taxes, and income transfers from the poor to the rich

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The objectives of this study are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindleberger’s famous dictum that usury ‘belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideas’; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti-usury campaign from the early 13th century...

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Economic Sanctions and The Sanctions Paradox: A Post-Sample Validation of Daniel Drezner’s Conflict Expectations Model

Hillebrand, Evan; Bervoets, Jeremy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

target will concede or resist. The model explained quite well the amount of concessions demanded by Russia in the 1990s and … the degree of compliance by the 14 new states. Russia is still using economic leverage to reap economic advantage and … political influence over its former constituent republics. In this paper we examine the pressures exerted by Russia in the 2000s …

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