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Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector : The Engine of Growth for Central and Eastern Europe?

Eller, Markus; Haiss, Peter R.; Steiner, Katharina - 2011

This paper examines the impact of financial sector foreign direct investment (FSFDI) on economic growth by estimating a panel data model for 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) between 1996 and 2003 in a cross-country growth accounting framework. The analysis concentrates on the...

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of 'Dutch Disease' : A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; De Rosa, Donato; Tompson, William - 2014

'. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … technology, and the economic reforms implemented in the two countries were also similar, although Ukraine was reckoned to lag … endowments. In short, Ukraine could provide a rough approximation of how a resource-poor Russia might have developed over the …

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of 'Dutch Disease' - A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; De Rosa, Donato; Tompson, William - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053185

The Post-Soviet Oligarchs and the Nomenklatura Capitalism Hypothesis

Marandici, Ion - 2020

Who are the post-Soviet oligarchs? Have they been members of the nomenklatura before 1991? Did they accumulate their initial wealth before or after privatization? To answer these questions, I have compiled an original data set of oligarchs drawing on publicly available biographical data in the...

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of 'Dutch Disease' : A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger - 2007

’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … technology, and the economic reforms implemented in the two countries were also similar, although Ukraine was reckoned to lag … endowments. In short, Ukraine could provide a rough approximation of how a resource-poor Russia might have developed over the …

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2021

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Estern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding th sources of enterpreneurship. A relativ demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27000 adults...

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The financial system in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland after a decade of transition

Reininger, Thomas; Schardax, Franz; Summer, Martin - 2001

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (CEEC-3) have undertaken substantial efforts to build a new financial system …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001640849

The financial system in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland after a decade of transition

Reininger, Thomas; Schardax, Franz; Summer, Martin - 2001

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (CEEC-3) have undertaken substantial efforts to build a new financial system …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419436

Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912