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Institutional determinants of investment in transition economies

Dang, V - 2009

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paperanalyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates oftransition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution ismeasured by the Freedom House’s Political...

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Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from an eastern European panel

Krammer, Marius S. - 2008

Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today's economic growth patterns. But whatenables some countries to innovate more than others? This study attempts to answer this questionby analyzing in premiere a panel of sixteen Eastern European transition countries. It provides adetailed...

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The Balassa-Samuelson effect in Central and Eastern Europe: Myth or reality?

Égert, Balázs; Drine, Imed; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; … - 2002

This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effect in 9 CEECs . Using panel cointegration techniques, we find strong empirical evidence in favour of what we call the internal transmission mechanism since productivity growth in the open sector is found to bring about non-tradable inflation. However,...

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF COVID-DEPRESSION (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS)

Zubiashvili, Tamaz; Silagadze, Levan; Atanelishvili, Tamar - 2022

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On inequality tax evasion and progressive taxes

Lahiri, Radhika; Phoon, Mark - 2010

This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...

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PATTERNS AND DETERMINANTS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE COSTS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Olper, Alessandro; Raimondi, Valentina - 2007

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/16/07.

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THE MYSTERY OF MONOGAMY

Gould, Eric D.; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - 2003

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market. This paper argues that the sources of inequality, not just the level of inequality, determine the equilibrium degree … of monogamy or polygamy. In particular, when inequality is determined more by disparities in human capital versus non …

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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons

Schott, Stephan - 2010

"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...

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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

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Representation and Reward in High Technology Industries and Occupations: The Influence of Race and Ethnicity

Gatchair, Sonia Denise - 2007

This study examined whether the demand for more educated science and engineering workers outweighed longstanding practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of...

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