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Great expectations: A tale of two transitions
Girardi, Daniele; Veneziani, Roberto; Wengle, Susanne - 2023
that characterise the transition process in both the economic and political realms. Contrary to a widespread assumption … survey the vast empirical literature on transition economies in order to provide evidence on the correlation between … expectations at the beginning of transition and success of the transition process. We provide the first comprehensive survey of the …
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Economic transition, dualism, and informality in India
Kesar, Surbhi - 2019
"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic …
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Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China
Wilson, Ross - 2015
This study uses heterogeneous panel Granger causality tests to investigate the causal relationships between quality of governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect of economic growth on subsequent quality of...
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China in the global economy
Sen, Sunanda - 2010
China occupies a unique position among developing countries. Its success in achieving relative stability in the financial sector since the institution of reforms in 1979 has given way to relative instability since the beginning of the current global financial crisis. Over the last few years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286512
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30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Ursachen für Konvergenz und Divergenz zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland
Schnabl, Gunther; Sepp, Tim - 2019
30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall wurde keine volle Konvergenz der Wirtschaftsleistung und der Lebensverhältnisse zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland erreicht. Das Papier zeigt die unvollständige Konvergenz bei Produktivität, Einkommen, Steueraufkommen und Vermögen auf. Es diskutiert mögliche...
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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession
Woo, Wing Thye - 2001
have produced positive results in the transition economies in Europe. Because a major reason for the failure of Gorbachev …
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Degrowth enthusiasm and the transformation blues of the East: Reflections on integrating post-socialist transformation experiences into the degrowth discourse
Gebauer, Jana; von Jorck, Gerrit; Pungas, Lilian - 2023
This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...
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Privatisation, Corporate Control and Employment Growth:Evidence From A Panel of Large Polish Firms, 1996-2002
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate; Gerry, Christopher J - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2005
Using panel data on large Polish firms this paper examines the relationship between corporatecontrol structures, sales growth and the determinants of employment change during the period 1996-2002. We find that privatised and de novo firms are the main drivers of employment growth andthat, in the...
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Wage Bargaining, Privatisation, Ability to Pay, andOutside Options – Evidence from Hungary
Köllő, Janos; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2004
This paper examines the determinants of short-term wage dynamics, using asample of large Hungarian companies for the period of 1996-1999. We test thebasic implications of an efficient contract model of bargaining between theincumbent employees and the managers, which we are unable to reject....
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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.
Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003
We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...
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