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Post-communist trends in education : Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Vicol, Carmen - 2005
The education systems of EE/CIS countries have undergone negative changes during the past 16 years. My paper examines these changes, identifies their causes and proposes solutions for improvement. I find that improved educational quality is the key for raising students’ enrolment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471748
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Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Babetskii, Ian; Campos, Nauro F. - 2006
Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalised uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476901
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Direct Foreign Investments And Productivity Growth In Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999
Sgard, Jérôme - 2001
The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477504
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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam
Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008
The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451347
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Explaining Postcommunist Economic Performance
King, Lawrence Peter - 2003
and extensive price and trade liberalization, stringent monetary and fiscal stabilization, and the implementation of a …This article critiques neoliberal transition theory from a neoclassical sociological perspective. Neoliberals argue … the neoliberal policy package of “Shock Therapy” (consisting of the radical transition to a market economy through rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476836
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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - 2004
Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477140
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Liberalization, Corporate Governance, and the Performance of Newly Privatized Firms
Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrance - 2001
This paper seeks to provide an answer to the following question, namely when and how does privatization work? Using a … reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477478
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Confidence building in emerging stock markets
Laeven, L.; Perotti, E.C. - 2001
, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a … major test of political commitment to safer private property rights. We investigate whether successful privatization has a … privatization gradually leads to increased confidence. Moreover, increased confidence has a strong effect on local market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460050
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Confidence building in emerging stock markets
Perotti, E.C.; Laeven, L.; Oijen, P. van - 2000
, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a … major test of political commitment to safer private property rights. We investigate whether successful privatization has a … privatization gradually leads to increased confidence. Moreover, increased confidence has a strong effect on local market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460190
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The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?
Tietenberg, Tom - 2000
"One of the new institutional forms of coping with the problem of rationing access to the commons involves the use of tradable permits. Applications of this approach have spread to many different types of resources and many different countries. The most common applications involve the control of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468494