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Purchasing power parity for developing and developed countries : what can we learn from non-stationary panel data models?

Drine, Imed (contributor); Rault, Christophe (contributor) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the robustness of the PPP concept for a sample of 80 developed and developing countries. We find that strong...

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The economics of employment protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...

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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries

Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 2014

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...

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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries : increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration

Holzmann, Robert (contributor) - 2005

The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...

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Emission tax and optimal privatization in Cournot-Bertrand comparison

Xu, Lili; Cho, Sumi; Lee, Sang-Ho - In: Economic modelling 55 (2016), pp. 73-82

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How transition paths differ : enterprise performance in Russia and China

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005

We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated with ownership or institutional factors. However, in...

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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013

-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …

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Power Sector Reform in SubSaharan Africa

Turkson, John K. (ed.) - 2000

As part of the wave of liberalisation sweeping most parts of the world, power sectors around the globe are coming under intense scrutiny, with some being restructured. This book presents six-country-case studies to examine the process and implementation experiences of power sector reform in...

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Progress toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector

Crew, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2006

The European Commission and its member states are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of the postal sector while maintaining the service obligation. This book addresses some of these concerns. It is comprised of essays chosen from those presented at the...

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Monetarization of the budget constraint : two-country model for the European Economic Community and the semi-industrial country blocks

Gazioğlu, Şaziye - In: Economic modelling 10 (1993) 2, pp. 163-172

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