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Creative Destruction or Destructive Perpetuation : The Role of Large State-Owned Enterprises and Smes in Romania During Transition

Ahrend, Rudiger; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim - 2004

In this article we investigate the role both the old large enterprises sector and the new SME sector have played during transition in Romania. In the first part, based on micro data for the large SOE sector, we document how heavily loss-making enterprises have been able to survive for a decade,...

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Russian Industrial Restructuring : Trends in Productivity, Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage

Ahrend, Rudiger - 2004

This article investigates issues related to industrial restructuring in Russia. Based on extensive sectoral data it examines, more particularly, levels and changes in labour productivity, unit labour costs and revealed comparative advantages for a large number of Russian industrial sectors. The...

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Job Growth in Early Transition : Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2003

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition. We ask about differences in their growth across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid destruction of pre-existing firms, and the Czech Republic, which reduced the old sector gradually. We find...

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Does Market Structure Matter? New Evidence from Russia

Brown, Annette N.; Brown, J. David - 1999

In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct Performance relationship between concentration and … concentration does increase profitability, but only in geographically dispersed industries, suggesting that regional markets are an …

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Competition and Corporate Governance: Substitutes or Compliments? Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Grosfeld, Irena; Tressel, Thierry - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

the separate effects of competition and ownership concentration on firm level productivity growth. Next, we investigate …In this paper we analyze the impact of product market competition and ownership structure on corporate performance. We … growth of productivity. Our results show that product market competition has a positive and significant impact on performance …

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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

era to permit free competition and effective governance by new owners. …

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Trade Sophistication in a Transition Economy: Poland 1980–2009

Kellman, Mitchell; Shachmurove, Mitchell Yochanan - Zakład Ekonometrii Stosowanej, Szkoła Główna … - 2012

Poland has historically demonstrated exceptional resiliency in the face of change. This paper examines how Poland coped with huge structural realignments from the rise of Solidarity until the present, seeking to provide an objective analysis of Poland’s evolution of trade structures while it...

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The Ability to Adapt and Overcome Obstacles : Machinery Exports of Poland

Kellman, Mitchell H. - 2012

From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union. This paper examines four independent metrics that measure the changing...

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Far from Home : Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003

restrictions on competition and entry in strategic sectors. Thus, enhancing competition by attracting a wider, more diverse set of …

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel S.; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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