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Is Poland the Next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco - 2012
We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101075
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244116
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Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-Ching - 2012
This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The … liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105215
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this …, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841412
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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2008
We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769529
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Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking : Evidence from Retail Forex Trading
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2016
We document evidence consistent with retail day traders in the Forex market attributing random success to their own skill and, as a consequence, increasing risk taking. Although past performance does not predict future success for these traders, traders increase trade sizes, trade size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994895
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Uncertainty and Hyperinflation : European Inflation Dynamics after World War I
Lopez, Jose A. - 2018
pushing a subset of European countries into hyperinflation shortly after the end of the war. Germany, Austria, Poland, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918627
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Unconventional Fiscal Policy
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2018
the effectiveness of such policies using changes in value-added tax (VAT) and household survey data for Poland. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929012
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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market … massive vacancies. The dispersion of wages increased substantially in Hungary and Poland though not in Czechoslovakia. My …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220944
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Inflation Targeting in Transition Countries : Experience and Prospects
Jonas, Jiri; Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021
This paper examines the inflation targeting experience in three transition countries: the Czech Republic, Poland and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225557