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Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from 25 Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Richard B. Goud Jr. - EconWPA - 2002

Using the joint World Bank and EBRD Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), compiled in 1999, this paper explores the relationship between firm performance and ownership in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The literature on privatization...

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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - EconWPA - 2005

, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are …

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PERESTROIKA AND RUBLE CONVERTIBILITY

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004

sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian … reforms if the transition process is to achive the goals of efficiency and equity. The paper is to be published in the Cato …

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Vietnam's Labour Market in Transition

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

effective. State enterprise restructuring will create unemployment, but the numbers will be small in relation to Vietnam’s total …

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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

frequent tax evaders and a 12% increase in the number who never evade. Governments in transition countries who suffer from weak …

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Fiscal competition in a transition economy

Solanko, Laura - EconWPA - 2002

The paper analyses fiscal competition for mobile capital between identical regions in a transition country. A framework … transition when the share of the old sector is overwhelming, consumers in a transition economy may be better off in a competitive …

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Pension Reform in a Highly Informalized Post-Soviet Economy

Dobronogov, Anton; Mayhew, Les - EconWPA - 2000

designing and implementing reforms exceptional attention should be paid to trust-building measures; • Debt-financed transition …-financed transition. This is due to an alleviation of the tax burden, which encourages a decline in unreported economic activity …

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Railway Competition: Options for the Russian Federation

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

In its first steps toward reform of its huge and hugely important railway system, the Russian Federation has begun corporate restructuring of a kind favored by many students of railway reform throughout the world: some kind of separation of the entity controlling the infrastructure from the...

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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition

Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001

look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994, after the chaos during the culmination of transition (1991 …

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Banken, instituties en zachte budgetbeperkingen tijdens de transitie

Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002

De juridische bescherming van banken en aandeelhouders beïnvloedt de omvang en kwaliteit van het financiële systeem en daarmee de economische groei. Gebrekkige (juridische) instituties in transitie-economieën kunnen de economische ontwikkeling van deze landen dan ook afremmen. Zo dragen...

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