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Integration in the absence of institutions: China–North Korea cross-border exchange

Haggard, Stephan; Lee, Jennifer; Noland, Marcus - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 130-145

Theory tells us that weak rule of law and institutions deter cross-border integration, deter investment relative to trade, and inhibit trade finance. Drawing on a survey of more than 300 Chinese enterprises that are doing or have done business in North Korea, we consider how informal...

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Product Market Regulation in Russia

Conway, P.; Lysenko, T.; Barnard, G. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2011) 10, pp. 95-124

This paper uses the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which the regulatory environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends. The indicators show that, despite improvements...

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Reform from Below: Behavioral and Institutional Change in North Korea

Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009

The state is often conceptualized as playing an enabling role in a country's economic development--providing public goods, such as the legal protection of property rights, while the political economy of reform is conceived in terms of bargaining over policy among elites or special interest...

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Bulgarian Welfare System (1989 – 2014) During the Transition and the Crisis

Nenovsky, Nikolay; MIlev, Jeko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Bulgarian welfare system was significantly changed in the late 1990’s and in early 2000’s following the whole economic and political changes since the collapse of communist system. On the next lines an attempt to summarize the most important changes in the Bulgarian economy in the early...

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Exchange Rate Effects on Domestic Prices in Bulgaria and Poland: Progress in Making Markets?

Feinberg, Robert; Meurs, Mieke - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 2, pp. 273-288

The economic liberalization which has occurred in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the past 15 years generally has involved establishing domestic markets and privatizing state-owned firms, both with the intention of integrating the CEE economies into the global economy and allowing the...

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INPUT-OUTPUT TABLE WITHIN THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL ACCOUNTS

Ivan Ungureanu, Clemantina - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2000) 2, pp. 55-62

The paper presents the System of National Accounts (SNA), the implementation of the SNA in Romania since 1990, the Input-Output Table in Romania and its characteristics, the Input-Output Table under inflation and also some other uses for analysis of the IOT such as sensitivity analysis.

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SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: RESPONSE

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions, for a transition from a planned to a … composed of “citizen shares” to cushion the disruptions and lessen the hardships of the transition process. This paper … information to the public and that government information was not likely to be viewed as credible by its citizens. Reference …

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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

move inexorably from centrally planned economies toward market economies. This historic transition must be guided by a …

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PERESTROIKA AND SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? AND HOW?

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions for a transition to a market economy that …

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The employment effects of nearly doubling the minimum wage : the case of Hungary

Kertesi, Gábor; Köllő, János - 2003

The effect of minimum wages on employment has been a matter of debate for more than a decade. Apart from a few cases (Puerto Rico, Indonesia, Columbia) the empirical works analysed the aftermaths of minor increases in the minimum wage, and yielded mixed results. Hungary 2000-2002 provides a...

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