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A two-thirds rate of success: Polish transformation and economic development, 1989 - 2008
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2009
abilities of the relevant country. In Poland, during 20 years of comprehensive systemic shift, GDP increased more than in any … competitiveness or in growth in terms of quantity, but also social and cultural aspects should be taken into account. In Poland, there … theories. Poland's transformation can be seen as a success, but only to the extent of achieving two-thirds of its potential. …
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The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this …-friendly governments were voted out of office, the new governments in Poland never reversed reforms undertaken by the previous government …
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Buyer Power and Innovation of Quality Products: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.
Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003
The last couple of decades have seen an increased retail concentration around the world, particularly in Europe. Views on the welfare implications of this severe change are controversial. Consumers might benefit because larger stores (owned by larger retailer chains) offer more product choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297135
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Trade Policy of Transition Economics
Moraga, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2000
This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...
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Dumping in a Global World
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and investigate the strategic incentives of...
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Anti-dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality Reversals
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two differentcountries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficientin terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger andendowed with a...
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Asymmetric information and overinvestment in quality
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2009
In a standard adverse selection world, asymmetric information about product quality leads to quality deterioration in the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers observe the investment (but not the realization of...
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Wealth as a signal in the search model of money
Okumura, Tsunao - 2005
This paper investigates the possibility that wealth (holdings of money) serves as a signal of ability to produce high quality products for agents who cannot directly observe the quality of the products. A producer's wealth may advertise past success in selling products to agents who knew the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266277
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The choice of environmental policy instruments: Energy efficiency and redistribution
Haupt, Alexander; Stadejek, Magdalena - 2010
We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...
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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
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