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the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed. Viability is a function of the speed of job destruction and the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of …
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We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
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sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS …
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transition countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). We compare the relative technical efficiency of East …
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In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of … that the technical efficiency of the companies has indeed increased during the transition, while allocative efficiency has …
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that characterise the transition process in both the economic and political realms. Contrary to a widespread assumption … survey the vast empirical literature on transition economies in order to provide evidence on the correlation between … expectations at the beginning of transition and success of the transition process. We provide the first comprehensive survey of the …
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the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed. Viability is a function of the speed of job destruction and the … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the …
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Several theoretical explanations for the presence of soft budget constraints have recently been put forward in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test these theories on the causes of soft budget constraints. We therefore use a panel data set, consisting of company...
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The former German Democratic Republic underwent a unique post-communist transition because it was absorbed into the …
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We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially stateowned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...
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