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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...
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Trade Liberalization and Enterprise Restructuring in Bulgaria, 1992-4
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper empirically tests the link between trade openness and enterprise restructuring in Bulgaria. It belongs to a recent line of work in the empirical trade literature that investigates the effects of trade policy on firm behaviour. The trade liberalization following the 1991 economic...
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Catching Up With Eastern Europe? The European Union's Mediterranean Free Trade Initiative
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper discusses the potential role of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) in helping Middle East and North African governments implement structural economic reforms. The arguments for and against preferential liberalization are summarized, identifying a number of necessary conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136673
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Macroeconomic Adjustment Under Bretton Woods and the Post-Bretton-Woods Float: An Impulse-Response Analysis
Bayoumi, Tamim; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
We use time-series methods to estimate a simple aggregate supply and demand model in order to analyse the comparative performance of fixed and flexible exchange rate systems and test competing hypotheses designed to explain shifts between exchange rate regimes. The paper provides a coherent...
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Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
Djankov, Simeon; Murrell, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
varies across regions. We study the effects of privatization, the importance of different types of owners, the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504282
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Privatization and Stock Market Liquidity
Bortolotti, Bernardo; de Jong, Frank; Nicodano, Giovanna; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using panel data of 19 developed economies in the period 1985-2000, we show that share issue privatization (SIP …
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The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector
Colin Xu, Lixin; Li, Wei; Zhen-Wei Qiang, Christine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … policies (1990-98 for roughly 50 countries), this Paper investigates the political economy determinants of privatization and …
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Liability for Past Environmental Contamination and Privatization
Earnhart, Dietrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper examines the role of liability for past environmental contamination in the privatization processes of … hypotheses regarding a privatization agency’s responses to the investor’s knowledge of cleanup costs. The empirical section of …
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Privatization, Efficiency and Economic Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Privatization is shown to increase national economic output in a two-sector full-employment general-equilibrium model …, or stabilization. The static output gain from reallocation and reorganization through privatization is captured in a …. Substitution of plausible parameter values into the formula indicates that, in practice, the static output gain from privatization …
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The Privatisation of British Gas and the Possible Consequences for the European Gas Market
Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
The British Government plans to privatise the British Gas Corporation in the autumn of 1986. The paper attempts to predict the possible consequences for the European gas market of privatisation, and their consequent implications for the United Kingdom. Much will depend on whether the Government...
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