Russia has undergone tumultuous changes during the transition process. This has been nowhere more evident than within …. Results suggest, in the case of Russia, that significant and positive returns to education and training exist comparable in …

investment opportunities and dead‐ends, new growth sectors and declining ones, jobs and livelihoods, and the overall …

Presents a history of logistical planning in the USSR and Russia from 1920‐1992. Describes in detail the functions of … created in Russia (since October 1992). The core of this system will be two joint‐stock purchasing companies (Roskontrakt and …

Republic. Looks at its effects on the economy and marketing in general. Reveals that growth can only be achieved for Ireland … through international marketing, with the rapid industrialization of Ireland being mainly due to foreign investment. Suggests …

This paper models investment/entry decisions in a competitive industry that is subject to a quantity control, either on …/input. We show that liberalizing the quantity control could reduce investment in the industry under certain circumstances …. Furthermore, the level of investment in the industry is different depending on whether the licenses are tradable or not. Key …

with the observed investment patterns among manufacturing firms in five African countries. We document a high frequency of … zero investment episodes, which is consistent with both fixed adjustment costs and irreversibility and inconsistent with … irreversibility and not fixed costs. We finally model the investment rate as a function of the size of the capital disequilibrium. The …