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The gasoline Industry in European Union and the USA
Polemis, Michail; Fotis, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores whether asymmetric pricing can be identified in the eleven euro zone countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) by utilizing Error Correction Model on the weekly price changes in order to assess current and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372526
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Threatening to increase productivity
Bridgman, Benjamin; Gomes, Victor; Teixeira, Arilton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277298
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Impact of Economic Crisis on Innovation Behaviour of Industrial Firms In Russia
Kuznetsov, Boris - 2013
The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082604
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Fostering Innovation in Russian Companies in the Post-Crisis Period : Opportunities and Constraints
Simachev, Yuri - 2013
In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that remain local thus not giving prerequisites to transform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083716
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Cooperation between Russian Research Organizations and Industrial Companies : Factors and Problems
Simachev, Yuri - 2014
The study is focused on the cooperation of Russian companies with research organizations in implementing R&D projects during technological innovation. Taking into account behavioral changes, authors carry out a micro-level analysis based on empirical data of executive survey of over 600 Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050230
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Russian Policies in Support of Innovation : Elusive Quest for Efficiency
Simachev, Yuri - 2014
Focused on the efficiency of the Russian innovation-fostering policy, the research is based on an empirical analysis of how policy instruments impact firms' behavior. The data is obtained from two surveys of more than 600 Russian industrial companies in 2011-2012. The analysis shows that tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051919
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Uzbek-Russian Economic Relations and the Impact of the Russian Economic Performance on Uzbekistan's Growth and Foreign Trade
Kakhkharov, Jakhongir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
majority of the connections among enterprises and branches of the economies of Russia and Uzbekistan. However, the sense of … world in Uzbekistan’s foreign trade, Russia's share is big enough to significantly influence the Uzbek economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272687
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258585
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«Национальные чемпионы» в структуре российского рынка банковских услуг
Vernikov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We assess the effects from the industrial policy of growing state-controlled national champions on the Russian banking system, its concentration and competitiveness. Some light is shed on comparative financial performance of state-controlled banks versus other market participants. We also show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258633
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Business Groups and Undeveloped Financial Institutions: The Case of Russia
Shumilov, Andrei; Volchkova, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The hypothesis that internal capital markets within Russian business groups overcome the liquidity constraints problem widely spread outside groups is tested. Our findings indicate that even if the groups’ internal capital markets do exist in Russian business groups, their efficiency is rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258995