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Equal before luck? : well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Rosello-Roig, Melcior - 2025

transition (or regime change), can give rise to significant long-lasting effects on people's health and well-being. We study this …'s health and mental well-being. We study the effect of the timing of the personal shocks, alongside the additional effect of … evidence of the detrimental effects of shocks on a series of relevant health and well-being outcomes. Second, we show evidence …

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Restructuring the ECB

Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003

Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...

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Inside post-socialist courts : the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014

Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two...

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Dollarization of deposits in the short and long run : evidence from CESE countries

Urosevic, Branko; Rajkovic, Ivana - 2016

In this paper, we study the drivers of permanent and transitory deposit dollarization for a sample of CESE countries using panel cointegration techniques. The results suggest that a positive cointegration relationship exists between permanent dollarization and Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP)...

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Looking for appropriate forms of intergovernmental transfers for municipalities in transition economies

Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001

Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...

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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002

The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...

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Ten years after : what is special about transition countries?

Gros, Daniel; Suhrcke, Marc - 2000

Most countries commonly classified as 'in transition' are st ill recognisably different from other countries with a similar income per capita in some respects: a larger share of their work force is in industry, they use more energy, they have a more extensive infrastructure and invest more in...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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Dumping in developing and transition economies

Moraga-González, José Luis (contributor); … - 2004

We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to...

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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