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Inflation targeting and monetary integration in European emerging market economies

Felix Hammermann - 2008

This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...

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Monetary and labor policies under market frictions

Christian Merkl - 2007

The thesis analyzes monetary and labor policies under different market frictions. In the first part several versions of a microfounded dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic competitors in the product and/or labor market are derived and simulated. First of all, the monetary...

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CAP effects on labour use in agriculture: Evidence from alternative dynamic panel data models

Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - 2010

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...

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Performance-Based Contracting for Roadway Maintenance Operations in Indiana

McCullouch, Bob G.; Sinha, Kumares C.; Anastasopoulos, … - 2009

INDOT initiated a study to investigate Performance Based Contracting of maintenance operations. One of the main impetus for the study is that INDOT started a ten year road building program called Major Moves that will add over a 1900 lane miles to the current network. With this addition and...

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11.479 Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries, Spring 2004

Davis, Jennifer - 2004

Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews available technologies, but emphasizes the planning and policy process, including economic, social, environmental, and health issues. Incorporates considerations of financing, pricing,...

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Fiscal Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries

Sunderland, Alexander H - 2011

This paper examines the fiscal impact of privatization revenues in 47 developing countries. There are many reasons that … privatization is attractive for the central government of developing countries. If substantial, these revenues from the sale of … state owned enterprises can present a potential solution to persistent deficits. On the other hand, the privatization …

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Liquidity, Volatility, and Equity Trading Costs Across Countries and Over Time

Domowitz, Ian; Glen, Jack; Madhavan, Ananth - 2000

Actual investment performance reflects the underlying strategy of the portfolio manager and the execution costs incurred in realizing those objectives. Execution costs, especially in illiquid markets, can dramatically reduce the notional return to an investment strategy. This paper examines the...

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Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-country Survey

Carlin, Wendy; Fries, Steven; Schaffer, Mark E.; … - 2001

This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...

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Explaining Postcommunist Economic Performance

King, Lawrence Peter - 2003

mass privatization program) creates severe supply-and-demand shocks for enterprises, inducing firm failure. This leads to a …

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Ownership and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Svejnar, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - 2003

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that concentrated foreign …

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