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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society
King, Lawrence; Hamm, Patrick - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
quantitative analysis of mass privatization programs in the postcommunist world. We argue that rapid large-scale privatization … implementation of mass privatization programs negatively impacts measures of economic growth, state capacity and the security of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784627
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Institutions Matter : The Case of Vietnam
Tran, Thi Bich; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 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...
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Az átalakulás gazdaságtana és a gazdaságtan átalakulása. A gazdasági rendszerek összehasonlító elméletétől a komparatív politikai gazdaságtanig
Gedeon, Péter - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLIV (1997) 1, pp. 56-68
E számunkban folytatjuk a magyar közgazdasági gondolat 1989 utáni sorsáról szóló fejtegetések tavaly áprilisban megkezdett közlését. Legutoljára júliusi-augusztusi dupla számunkban foglalkozott ezzel a témával Szelényi Iván és Sik Endre.
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In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons for Limited Access Societies
NORTH, D.; WALLIS, J.; WEBB, S.; B. WEINGAST. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 3 (2012)
The paper presents a summary of the forthcoming book by the authors and discusses the sample study of the 9 developing countries. While admitting the non-linearity of economic development they claim that the developing countries make a transition from the limited access orders (where the...
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Declining trust in growing China: A dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners´ dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002818
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2008
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030688
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gehlbach, Scott - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187394
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Extent of the Integrated State Ownership and Effect of the State Control on Performance of Czech Firms
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - In: Politická ekonomie 2011 (2011) 1, pp. 82-104
We analyze the extent of the integrated state control over the privatized companies in the Czech Republic during the decade of 1995-2005. During this period, the integrated potential of the state to control companies had a pyramid-like form. Even though the pyramid control was not fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876460
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Competitive Markets without Commitment
Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
In the presence of a time-inconsistency problem with optimal agency contracts, we show that competitive markets implement allocations that Pareto dominate those achieved by a benevolent planner, they induce strictly more effort, and they sometimes make the commitment problem disappear entirely....
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