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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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Understanding the development of fundamentalism

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires understanding the principles of groups’ formation, development and growth. We use economic theory to explain the creation and development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we...

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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …

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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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Wage growth and inequality change during rapid economic transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western … Germany, a setting different from most other transition economies. However, changes in the Eastern wage structure during …

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A note on poverty in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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Monetary Union: European Lessons, Latin American Prospects

Hochreiter, Eduard; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus; Winckler, Georg - 2002

In this paper selective issues of long-run sustainability of monetary unions are analyzed. Using theoretical insights and the experience of EMU up to now we argue that empirical evidence on OCA criteria for EMU suggests that benefits for the countries participating in EMU outweigh costs by a...

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Real Convergence, Price Level Convergence and Inflation Differentials in Europe

Égert, Balázs - 2007

economic convergence may push up inflation rates in transition economies. Cyclical effects and regulated prices are found to be … exchange rate plays a prominent (but declining) role in transition economies. …

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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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