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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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PRIVATE R&D INVESTMENTS IN AGRICULTURE: THE ROLE OF INCENTIVES AND INSTITUTIONS
Alfranca, Oscar; Huffman, Wallace E. - 1999
This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate …-1995. We find strong impacts of both incentives and institutions on private agricultural R&D investment, and including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443114
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468491
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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society
King, Lawrence Peter; Hamm, Patrick - 2005
back on the enterprise sector, as the state can no longer support the institutions necessary for the effective functioning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477529
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Inefficient policies, inefficient institutions and trade
Segura Cayuela, Rubén - 2006
of the reason may be related to the interaction between weak institutions and trade. In particular, I construct a model … in which trade opening in societies with weak institutions (in particular autocratic and elite-controlled political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530145
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Labor Market Trends and Institutions in Belarus
Brixiova, Zuzana; Volchok, Vera - 2005
In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market … fall in employment since 1990 has been similar to other transition economies, leading to a sharp reduction of labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476683
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How to Increase R & D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Domadenik, Polona; Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - 2006
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&Dexpenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advancedtransition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477217
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How To Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Domadenik, Polona; Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - 2006
studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477356
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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477427