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Dividend (Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter, 1991)
(Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1991)
Bank Privatization in Poland: The Case of Bank Slaki
(1997-04-01)
The privatization of Bank Slaski, one of nine regional commercial banks in Poland, illustrates the benefits of attracting a strategic foreign investor in the process. Internationale Nederlanden Group has contributed ...
Analytic evaluation of contention protocols used in distributed real-time systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-07)
The probability of a station failing to deliver packets before their deadlines, called the probability of dynamic failure, P dyn , is an important measure for the communication subsystem of a distributed real-time system. ...
Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic Growth
(1998-09-01)
Countries in which billionaire heirs' wealth is large relative to G.D.P. grow more slowly; show signs of more political rent seeking, and spend less on innovation than do other countries at similar levels of development. ...
Job Creation, Job Destruction and Growth of Newly Established, Privatized and State-Owned Enterprises in Transition Economies: Survey Evidence from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
(1997-11-01)
This paper reports new and unique firm level survey evidence to investigate the micro economic nature of the growth process and structural change in three transition countries, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. In particular ...
Privatization and Managerial Efficiency
(1997-05-01)
We investigate the privatization decision of a government whose objectives are to preserve jobs and to stabilize its budget. The firm considered needs restructuring, i.e. some funds must be provided and the manager must ...
Dividend (Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 1999)
(Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1999)
Can Governments Mandate Hard Budget Constraints? Bank Lending and Financial Isolation in Romania
(1999-01-01)
This paper examines the empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in the financial sector in Romania in the period 1993-1995. The methodological framework of the paper is based on a theoretical model of intertemporal ...
Theories of Soft Budget Constraints and the Analysis of Banking Crises
(1999-03-01)
This paper proposes a new taxonomy for classifying models of soft budget constraints which allows identification of two classes of models. Distinguishing between these classes of models is useful, as they yield SBCs in ...