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Financial Efficiency and the Ownership of Czech Firms

Hanousek, Jan - 2011

In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm financial efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more … than 400,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm financial efficiency evolves … over time, and how firm financial efficiency is determined by ownership structure. We employ a panel version of a …

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Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional Efficiency Approach

Stastna, Lenka Stastna (Gregorova); Votapkova … - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2014

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables. E …

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R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...

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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry

Moers, Luc - 2000

To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved …

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Determinants of enterprise restructuring in transition : description of a survey in Russian industry

Moers, Luc - 2000

To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved …

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Modeling the Transition from a Socialist to Capitalist Economic System

Kitov, Ivan - 2006

The transition of several East and Central European countries and the countries of the Former Soviet Union from the … level of the per capita GDP are used to describe the transition process. The developed transition model contains only three … transition process finished in the Central European countries several years ago and their economic evolution is defined by pure …

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State Capacity and China's Economic Performance

Cheng, Hua - 2017

This study attempts a first causal examination of the role of state capacity in China's economic performance. Effective state capacity connotes not just ability to extract tax from citizens but also the ability to convert taxes into public investment. Equally importantly, these capacities must...

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Lessons from Bulgarian Transition for Environmental Governance in Central Asia

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2014

-activities. Firstly, we assess efficiency of market, private and public modes in Bulgarian agriculture and identity major environmental … challenges. Next we withdraw lessons how positive and negative experiences from Bulgarian transition could be used in …

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It Takes Two to Tango : Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Troubled Times — Vietnam 2012

Napier, Nancy K.; Vu, Dang; Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2013

This study focuses on perceived values of entrepreneurship and creativity within a turbulent environment. The initial hypothesis is that a typical entrepreneurial process carries with its “creativity-enabling elements”. In a normal situation, businesses focus on optimizing their resources...

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Liberalisation, Incentives and Vietnamese Agricultural Growth.

Che, T.N.; Kompas, T.; Vousden, N. - Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College … - 1998

This paper uses adynamic model to analyse the effects of liberalisation on the long-run output and transitional growth of the Vietnamese rice sector during the period of reform from 1981 to the present. In particular, the paper attempts to allow for the incentive effects which can result if...

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