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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234403
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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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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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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their …, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using …
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Do Institutions Cause Growth?
Glaeser, Edward L.; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, … - 2021
We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...
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Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2022
In this essay, we provide a simple conceptual framework to elucidate the forces that lead to institutional persistence and change. Our framework is based on a dynamic game between different groups, who care both about current policies and institutions and future policies, which are themselves...
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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2013
-border merger and acquisitions data support the model's prediction that horizontal FDI grows relatively faster than exports in …
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Globalized Israel : High Tech Prowess and Buttressing FDI
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
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Global Production with Export Platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2016
market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants … away export platforms – i.e. they do not allow foreign affiliates of multinationals to export – or by ignoring fixed costs … multinational firms that engage in export platform sales and that face fixed costs of foreign investment. I first estimate the model …
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