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Privatization in East European Transformation
Fischer, Stanley - 1991
Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475303
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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller
Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250176
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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe's Transition : Early Results
Rodrik, Dani - 1992
By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland have achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade. In all three countries, trade is now de-monopolized and licensing and quotas playa very small role. Exchange controls have virtually disappeared for current-account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474915
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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition
Friebel, Guido - 2007
We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465657
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466679
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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China
Young, Alwyn - 2000
In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy which are freed from centralized control respond to the rent seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470915
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461426
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Crises in Emerging Market Economies : A Global Perspective
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2005
The paper argues that global financial factors played an important role in the capital-inflow episode in Emerging Market economies (EMs), during the early part of the 1990s, and clearly in the Sudden Stop (of capital inflows) crises that took place after the 1998 Russian crisis. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467379
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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley - 2000
policies and structural reforms, particularly privatization, contributed to the growth recovery. We also conclude that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471103
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Economic Aspects of the Energy Transition
Heal, Geoffrey - 2020
I make three points relating to the transition from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy. One is that the economic cost of moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy in electricity generation is very low, and probably lower than many estimates of the economic benefits from this change. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481069