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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition...
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The Transition Economies after Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley; Sahay, Ratna - 2010
While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Panel Evidence
Beck, Thorsten; Levine, Ross - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
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Household Savings in Transition Economies
Denizer, Cevdet - 2010
Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the determinants of household saving rates in transition economies. We find savings rates to increase strongly in relative income and to be significantly higher for households...
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Courts and Relational Contracts
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021
Post-communist countries offer new evidence on the relative importance of courts and relationships in enforcing contracts. Belief in the effectiveness of courts has a significant positive effect on the level of trust shown in new relationships between firms and their customers. Well-functioning...
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Growth, Reform Indicators and Policy Complementaries
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2007
countries, assuming that the run-up to EU integration corresponds to a nearly complete policy cycle. Using econometric panel …
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Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation of Econometric Share Models
Mullahy, John - 2010
proposed by Papke and Wooldridge, 1996, 2008, in univariate cross-sectional and panel contexts. The paper discusses the … econometric strategies for share model estimation. The paper then goes on to discuss the univariate fractional regression … estimation strategies proposed by Papke and Wooldridge and to extend the fractional regression approach to estimation of and …
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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - 2012
"iron-law" rate of 2%. In the post-1960s panel, estimation without country fixed effects supports the modernization …In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta … frame-34 countries with GDP data starting between 1870 and 1896-estimation with country fixed effects is more appropriate …
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate : Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Neumark, David - 2013
studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it …
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