aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional … try to discover the mechanism of influence of the last reform of the Ukrainian payroll tax system on the structure and …

, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and …. Then we turn to reform options and actions already taken. We particularly focus on issues that are specific to the …

Recent empirical research on efficiency gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade … accession countries are also high and variant and thus cannot serve as a proxy for the 'economic distance of Russia to Brussels … services (i.e., energy distribution), Russia will probably not open its service sector for EU suppliers more than is required …

% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 … ambiguous even after 5 years in Russia. Pre-privatization MFP exceeds that of firms remaining state-owned in all countries …