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The Czech transition : the importance of microeconomic fundamentals

Švejnar, Jan; Uvalić, Milica - 2009

We examine the case of the Czech Republic, which has been frequently cited as one of the most successful cases of … Czech Republic in 1989 and the development strategy adopted at the beginning of the transition. We then address the … analyse the achievements and failures of the strategy with respect to both economic performance and progress with …

Priorities and sequencing in privatization : evidence from Czech firm panel data

Gupta, Nandini; Ham, Jhon C.; Švejnar, Jan - In: European economic review : EER 52 (2008) 2, pp. 183-208

Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2009

at work. Our estimates suggest that the west and east German parts of Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia are consistent … question hence contain one broad group of countries and one or two special cases. The group comprises the Czech Republic … east German parts of Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia are consistent with H2 and H3. Hungary provides limited support …

Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development : are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, … - In: The review of economics and statistics 94 (2012) 4, pp. 981-999

Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development : are firms in emerging markets catching Up to the world standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor); … - 2007

@langate.gsu.edu svejnar@umich.edu terrell@umich.edu June 2007 Abstract Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in … implementing market-oriented development policies: the Czech Republic and Russia. Using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all …. The distance of the Russian firms to the efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms. Nevertheless …

Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy

Münich, Daniel; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - In: The review of economics and statistics 87 (2005) 1, pp. 100-123

Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe

Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Švejnar, Jan - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 58 (2004/05) 3, pp. 353-369

Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

Estrin, Saul (contributor); Hanousek, Jan (contributor); … - 2009

associated with lower employment. When accompanied by complementary reforms, privatization has a positive effect on economic … employment. When accompanied by complementary reforms, privatization has a positive effect on economic growth. Three factors …*** JEL Codes: D2, L2, O1, P5 Keywords: privatization, ownership, firm performance, economic growth, transition from …

China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.

Atkeson, A and P.J. Kehoe, “Social Insurance and Transition,” International Economic Review, Vol. 37, 1996, 377-402. Basu ….00) 1. Introduction China’s post 1978 economic reforms and the post 1989 economic transition that has followed the … collapse of the Soviet political and economic system provide a unique setting for comparing two paths of transformation of a …

Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? : Evidence from 26 transition countries

Commander, Simon (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

example, World Bank (2002) and EBRD (1999) 3 World Bank (2005); World Economic Forum (2005) 4 See Hausmann et al. (2004 ….g., Djankov et al., 2002, and Botero et al. 2004), competitiveness (e.g., World Economic Forum), transparency (e … legal system (Durnev and Kim, 2005), and the level of economic freedom in an economy (e.g., Heritage Foundation). Many of …