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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008

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 … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

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EU's eastern neighbours: Institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus

Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009

This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...

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Why Some Sectors of Transition Economies are less Reformed than Others? The Case of Research and Education

Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivcak, Jan - 2005

We analyze university research and education in transition countries. University system differs from industry in the …

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How i learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers: A gravity model approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: Lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008

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 … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288001