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More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...
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socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy …
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This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
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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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We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition … economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private …
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1990 to 2003. The estimating equation is augmented with country- and time-specific variables for methods of privatization … and other factors potentially relevant to growth in transition economies. It is found that 'mass privatization' is … associated with faster growth, but the other privatization methods have no significant impact. The findings suggest that in the …
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We provide a simple theoretical model to explain the mechanism whereby privatization of international airports can …
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