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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis

Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016

Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role … SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are …. Significant resources from governments and international organizations are directed to SMEs to maximize their socioeconomic impact …

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Robotisation, employment and industrial growth intertwined across global value chains

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Reiter, Oliver; Stehrer, Robert; … - 2020

The global economy is currently experiencing a new wave of technological change involving new technologies, especially in the realm of artificial intelligence and robotics, but not limited to it. One key concern in this context is the consequences of these new technologies on the labour market....

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Theory of privatization in Eastern Europe : literature review

Schindele, Ibolya - 2003

This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of securities markets. In addition, the paper provides a...

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Endogenous ownership structure : factors affecting the post-privatisation equity in largest Hungarian firms

Bishop, Kate; Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2002

Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by both foreign investors and by Hungarian corporations. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneous equity structures, where...

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Privatization and restructuring in concentrated markets

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2004

This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....

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Privatisation methods and economic growth in transition economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James W.; Urga, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...

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Great expectations : a tale of two transitions

Girardi, Daniele; Veneziani, Roberto; Wengle, Susanne - 2023

Over a quarter of the world's population lives in economies that have undertaken transitions from central planning to market economies. These transitions entail far-reaching and complex changes in social, economic and political institutions and have had widely divergent outcomes. Important...

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Corporate capture of blockchain governance

Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Li, Jin; Nikolowa, … - 2019

We develop a theory of blockchain governance. In our model, the proof-of-work system, which is the most common set of rules for validating transactions in blockchains, creates an industrial ecosystem with specialized suppliers of goods and services. We analyze the two-way interactions between...

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Work values in Western and Eastern Europe

Torgler, Benno - 2011

The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work...

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The distance between perception and reality in the social domains of life

Lora, Eduardo - 2013

The distance between perception and reality with respect to the social domains of life is often striking. Using survey data collected on Latin American countries, this paper provides an overview of the main empirical findings on the gaps between perception and reality in four social...

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