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Back on track? : savings puzzles in EU-accession countries
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2002
remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to … savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436998
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Savings in Central Eastern Europe
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2001
The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces - this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434227
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Savings in Central Eastern Europe
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2001
The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces – this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260767
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel - 2010
In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149069
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 1999
In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics, which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044937
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Private savings in Eastern European EU-accession countries : evidence from a dynamic panel data model
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2003
After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438969
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Growth and structural changes in transition countries : the chicken or the egg?
Olczyk, Magdalena; Kordalska, Aleksandra - 2018
The theoretical analysis of structural changes in the context of economic growth has a long tradition. However, studies which analyze the empirical relationship between these two economic categories are still very rare. In the literature, whether growth causes structural changes or the other way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844751
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Banking Sector Development and Household Saving in Emerging Eastern Europe
Rahmanov, Ramiz - 2015
This article examines the impact of the banking sector development on households' saving dynamics in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. For this purpose, we use the mean group FMOLS estimator to estimate the saving function augmented with variables characterizing three dimensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023561
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Private Savings and Transition : Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Accession Countries
Stephan, Sabine; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2005
After the collapse in the early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. But is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065939
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Private and Government Consumption in Transitional Economies : A Panel Data Analysis
Apergis, Nicholas - 2007
This paper investigates the presence of the relationship between private and government consumption through panel data techniques. Using a panel from different transitional countries, from 1990 to 2003, it applies the panel cointegration and causality methodologies. The study finds statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729972