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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 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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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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After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies
Hoff, Karla - 2002
When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the … show that beneficiaries of mass privatization may fail to demand the rule of law even if it is the Pareto efficient rule of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469426
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Courts and Relational Contracts
Johnson, Simon - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470146
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Household Savings in Transition Economies
Denizer, Cevdet - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472348
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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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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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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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China's Macroeconomic Development : The Role of Gradualist Reforms
Chen, Kaiji; Zha, Tao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high saving rates, the housing boom, an expanding current...
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