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Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance

Licht, Amir N.; Goldschmidt, Chanan; Schwartz, Shalom H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform- oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...

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Law, Relationship, and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprise

Hendley, Kathryn; Murrell, Peter; Ryterman, Randi - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

We examine how Russian enterprises do business with one another, focusing on the strategies used to obtain efficiency and predictability in their transactions. Using survey data, the paper analyzes the relative importance of relational contracting, self-enforcement, enterprise networks, private...

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the transition period while the skill...

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Assessing Mondragon: Stability & Managed Change in the Face of Globalization

Arando, Saioa; Freundlich, Fred; Gago, Monica; Jones, … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

By drawing on new interview evidence gathered during several field trips and new financial and economic data from both external and internal sources, we document and assess the changing economic importance and performance of the Mondragon group of cooperatives as well as the two largest sectors...

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How Reform Worked in China

Qian, Yingyi - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many conventional institutions such as rule of law and secure private...

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Competition, Innovation and Growth in Transition: Exploring the Interactions between Policies

Aghion, Philippe; Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective corporate governance and to harden enterprise budget constraints. How do these policies interact? Are they substitute policy instruments or does one policy reinforce the effect of...

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From Prosperity to Depression: Bulgaria and Romania (1996/97 – 2010)

NENOVSKY, Nikolay; TOCHKOV, Kiril; TURCU, Camelia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

Bulgaria and Romania are neighbouring countries, which have always been rivals. Following the decision on EU … enlargement to include Bulgaria and Romania (late 1999) and with membership negotiations already started (2004), the race between … its discretionary monetary policy and since 2005 has moved to inflation targeting, Bulgaria made an abrupt turn in mid …

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THE EFFECTS OF NETWORK’S STRUCTURAL HOLES: POLYCENTRIC INSTITUTIONS, PRODUCT PORTFOLIO, AND NEW VENTURE GROWTH IN CHINA AND RUSSIA

Batjargal, Bat - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2012

This study examines the effect of network’s structural holes, i.e., the absence of a link between two contacts who are both linked to an actor, on product development and profit growth of software ventures in two different institutional contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159...

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IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Tamazian, Artur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

This purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of institutional quality on human rights abuses in transition economies. We make use of an alternative empirical approach for evaluation of institutional system’s development in transition economies developed by Chousa et al. (2005)....

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