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Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe : A Framework and Some Estimates
Rodrik, Dani - 1992
and a third of the decline in Poland …
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Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia
Field, Erica M. - 2019
Mongolia. We conducted public lotteries to allocate scarce slots for approximately 8,000 students who applied to oversubscribed … Mongolia led to significantly higher employment, and increased earnings for women. These positive impacts appear to be due to …
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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply a Regression Discontinuity based approach to screen for collusion developed in Kawai et al. (2022) to public procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than those who lose by a very small margin in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334488
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Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-ching - 2005
"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/10010522647
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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity). We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510619
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Macroeconomic Planning and Disequilibrium : Estimates for Poland, 1955-1980
Portes, Richard - 1983
planned economy(CPE).The data are from Poland for the period 1955-1980, but the analysis is more general and will be applied … the major macroeconomic variables in Poland and other CPEs.The overall framework is applicable to any large organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477917
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Planning the Consumption Goods Market : Preliminary Disequilibrium Estimates for Poland, 1955-1980
Portes, Richard - 1983
planned economy (CPE).The data are from Poland for the period 1955-1980, but the analysis is more general and will be applied … a unique new data set of time series for plans for the major macroeconomic variables in Poland and other CPEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478027
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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/10012479287
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634