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Privatization Policy in Bulgaria: An Initial Assessment

Keremidchiev, Spartak - EconWPA - 2005

The privatization process in the transition economies may appear to be the most serious economic event in the last 10 …-12 years. All transition countries experimented with different privatization models. Although the privatization processes have …

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The Productivity Gap between East and West Europe: What Role for Sectoral Structures during Integration?

Stephan, Johannes - EconWPA - 2004

Analysis into the sources of lower levels of national productivities between Central East European Economies and the European Union is scarce and lacks comparability. These sources are assessed by analysing the role played by sectoral structures. After providing a brief overview over comparative...

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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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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

move inexorably from centrally planned economies toward market economies. This historic transition must be guided by a … coherent set of stabilization policies to reduce the threat of macroeconomic collapse and the threat of inflation. As a …

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PERESTROIKA AND SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? AND HOW?

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

of an egalitarian distribution of income and wealth? I propose a sequential set of stabilization, privatization and … liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions for a transition to a market economy that …

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The Social Impact of the Reform Process

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

annum. Transition, typically identified as “starting” in 1986, was a relatively painless affair of structural adjustment and … planning model in the ten years after 1976 became a virtue for transition. The social consequences of transition were due to …

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Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises

Lizal, Lubomir - EconWPA - 2001

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign trade liberalization in the Czech Republic. It also focuses on the effect of Asoft@ macroeconomic environment on the microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with...

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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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China's Reform Period Economic Growth: Why Angus Maddison Got It Wrong and What That Means

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

China's economic growth statistics of the late 1990s have repeatedly been questioned. Angus Maddison in a 1998 OECD study goes further in that he revised China's official average annual real growth rate for the first seventeen years of economic reform, 1978 through 1995, downward by 2.39...

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Canaries and Vultures: A Quantitative History of Monetary Mismanagement in Brazil

Albuquerque, Pedro H.; Gouvea, Solange - EconWPA - 2005

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Brazil went through a sequence of failed stabilization plans that …

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