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Financial Conditions and Investment during the Transition: Evidence from Czech Firms
(2001-10-01)
In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of medium and large industrial firms in the Czech Republic during the 1992-95 period. We examine the relevance ...
Academic application is not an oxymoron
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Commentary on “A Performance-Based, Minimalist Human Resource Management Approach in Business Schools”
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
(2007-10-16)
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms ...
Some Philosophical Underpinnings for Communication: Western and Eastern Foundations as Seen in Commonplace Principles
(2007-07)
Concepts of the "Topoi," later segued into Commonplaces (linguistic collections, sources for arguments), mutated from the Aristotelian et.al. cognitive searches for truth into a broader concept. That seminal cognitive ...
Essence of Strategy: Controversial Choices
(, 2006)
The essence of strategy is to make controversial choices; this is the only way to gain a
competitive advantage. Both strategy development and execution require making
difficult choices and trade-offs often in the context ...
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
(2007-02-26)
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike ...
Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-08)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food ...
Behavioral Public Finance: Tax Design as Price Presentation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
In this essay we review the evidence from marketing research about price presentation of consumer products and discuss how these lessons have been applied—consciously or unconsciously—in the design of the U.S. tax system. ...
Unemployment in East and West Europe
(2007-04)
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western ...
Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition
(2006-05-24)
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and ...