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those foreign policy issues, which are of crucial importance to Poland, Europe and transatlantic relations in both the long …
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The largest volume waste stream associated with oil and gas production is produced water. A survey conducted by the American Petroleum Institute estimated that 20.9 billion barrels of produced water were disposed of in 1985 (Wakim 1987). Of this total, 91% was disposed of through disposal wells...
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This study analyzes the effect of corporate environmental performance on financial performance in a transition economy. In particular, it assesses whether good environmental performance affects revenues, costs, or both, and if so, in which directions. As environmental performance improves, do...
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examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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Longitudinal data from interviews with Poles of working age conducted in 1988, 1993 and 1998 present a detailed view of the transition from a state dominated to a market economy. Job loss in state firms and job creation in new private firms are the dominant employment change, other than...
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real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … substantially greater than that in Poland, indicating incipient pressures to devalue the ruble immediately preceding the August 1998 … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period …
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This study proposes an extension to the inflation targeting framework for Poland that takes into consideration the …
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country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia …
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Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …
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