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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition
Friebel, Guido - 2007
weak outsider property rights enforcement in Russia. Keywords: institutional environment and internal labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465657
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie - 1999
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471498
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696370
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate an integrated model of investment profile adoption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002
This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469687
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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463774
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Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia
Gronau, Reuben - 2006
econometric identification problems. Furthermore, using data from the late 90s from transition Russia, it is argued that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466381
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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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Russia and the Soviet Union Then and Now
Fischer, Stanley - 1992
The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four … historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New … 1970s and 1980s? What role did Gorbachev's policies play in bringing about the final collapse of the Soviet Union? Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474902
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Simulating Russia’s and Other Large Economies’ Challenging and Interconnected Transitions
Benzell, Seth G. - 2015
This paper develops a large-scale, dynamic life-cycle model to simulate Russia's demographic and fiscal transition … under favorable and unfavorable fossil-fuel price regimes. The model includes Russia, the U.S., China, India, the EU, and … Japan+ (Japan plus Korea). The model predicts dramatic increases in tax rates in the U.S., EU, India, and Russia. Indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457398