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The Influence of Historical Socialism and Communism on the Shaping of a Society’s Economic Ethos : An Exploratory Study of Central and Eastern Europe

Padelford, Walton - 2012

This study utilizes an exploratory research design to investigate the influence of historical socialism and communism on the shaping of a society's economic ethos. The discussion of ethics and economics has a very long history across multiple disciplines including the founder of modern...

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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Kudriavceva, Nadezda - 2012

This study explores the determinants of FDI in CEE economies based on a panel data model of 10 CEE countries over a period of 10 years. The aim of this research is to identify driving forces behind the decision of foreign actors to invest in the region. Three groups of relevant determinants are...

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Do Budget Institutions Matter? Fiscal Consolidation in the New EU Member States

Mulas-Granados, Carlos - 2012

Carlos Mulas-Granados, Jorge Onrubia and Javier Salinas-Jiménez investigate the role played by fiscal institutions in the new EU member states that joined in 2004 and in 2007 in the period from 1993 to 2004. They find that budgetary institutions – whose main features are summed up with...

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Eastern Enlargement of the European Monetary Union : An Optimal Currency Area-Theory View

Mahlberg, Bernhard - 2012

An Optimum Currency Area (OCA) is characterized by a group of countries for which forgoing the exchange rate mechanism, as an instrument of correcting asymmetric shocks, is compensated by other economic policy instruments. In this paper, we address the issue whether the CEEC are a part of a...

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Health-Care Financing Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe : Common Problems and Possible Approaches

Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2012

Mihaljek focuses on health care financing issues in Central and Eastern Europe from the public finance and macroeconomic perspectives, given that there are defective financial incentives to health-care providers and an unsustainable structure of health-care financing. There are several...

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Romania's Development to a Low-Tax Country : Effective Corporate Tax Burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania's Current Ranking Among the Eastern European Member States

Spengel, Christoph - 2012

We trace back Romania's development to a low-tax country among the Member States of the European Union by analyzing the major tax law changes in corporate taxation since 1992. We find that the significant reduction of the corporate income tax rate from 45% in 1992 to 16% since 2005 has not been...

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Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe

Montalbano, Pierluigi - 2012

This paper offers a substantive contribution to the debate on the role of international trade on the development of emerging countries. The aim is to detect empirically the phenomenon of vulnerability induced by trade openness. The methodology adopts a forward-looking approach and tries to fill...

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Are the Corporate Governance Standard in Banks in the CEE Countries Low Hanging Fruit?

Slomka-Golebiowska, Agnieszka - 2012

The aim of the study is to evaluate corporate governance practices in banks that were listed on stock exchange during … board based on data gathered from survey sent to the banks, their financial statements, reports on corporate governance and … supervisory boards' report on their activities. The study shows that during the crisis banks in the CEE countries themselves …

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The Dependence of CEECs on Foreign Bank Claims : Direct and Indirect Risks of Capital Withdrawal

Brana, Sophie - 2012

CEECs are characterised by a significant presence of foreign banks and by a marked dependence upon financing from …

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Work Values in Western and Eastern Europe

Torgler, Benno - 2012

The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work...

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