We construct a simple model that tests for repressed inflation by estimating a "true" rate of inflation that explains behavior of observed money demand. We estimate the model using quarterly data for Czechoslovakia and Poland. Although our results should be viewed as preliminary, given the...

A cross-cultural or comparative approach is applied in order to demonstrate the main characteristics both of the theoretic background and practice of the Chinese and the Swedish principles of employment systems. This paper attempts to point out some main problems of the Chinese system and to...

This paper examines the effects of incentives in employee remuneration on financial performance in a sample of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The estimates show that bonus payments as a form of pofit-sharing between employees and the state have...

In the transition from a command to a market economy, macroeconomic stabilization poses a grave problem facing the reform governments. A distinct feature of China's economic fluctuations in the post-1979 period has been its "soft-constraint competition." A two-region game theoretical model is...

The record of Chinese monetary authorities at targeting MO in the late eighties early nineties is rather poor. This paper thus first aims at determining whether the instability of currency demand is responsible for this. By so doing we show, using adequate econometric techniques, that a long-run...

The quantitative analysis of manufacturing operations usually considers the amortization of physical assets, and allows for the cost of such assets in product prices. Typically, this involves the use of an asset's P/A ratio, where P is its initial cost and A is the net cash-flow or profit it...

The paper uses annual data from a panel of 334 Polish industrial enterprises over the period 1983-88 to test empirically a simple neoclassical approach to the socialist labor market. First, an enterprise production function is estimated. The paper finds that for most enterprises, the resulting...

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on the long-run economic development as measured by the real GDP per capita in Turkey. Based on the "endogenous" growth theory, we employ bivariate and multivariate cointegration analyses to test the long-run relationship among the relevant...