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Gross job flows in Ukraine
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-06)
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a dataset of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in manufacturing and non-manufacturing for the years 1998–2000. Job destruction ...
The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections
(2003-08-01)
The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption. In this paper we develop and test a model ...
Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
(2003-03-01)
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in manufacturing and non-manufacturing for the years 1998-2000. Job destruction ...
DEMOCRACY’S SPREAD: Elections and Sovereign Debt in Developing Countries
(2003-05-15)
We use partisan and opportunistic political business cycle (“PBC”) considerations to develop and test a framework for explaining election-period changes in credit spreads for developing country sovereign bonds. Pre-election ...
Blocked Transition And Post-Socialist Transformation: Serbia in the Nineties
(2003-10-01)
This paper is showing that Serbia in the nineties was an interesting case of postsocialist transformation in spite of the greatly blocked transition. The key sign of the post-socialist transformation has been the formation ...