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Wage Determination Under Communism and In Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
(2004-08-01)
Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, we show that the wage behavior of firms changed considerably as these economies launched their transitions to a market system. We find ...
My Beautiful Tax Reform
(2005)
Many experts equate the best tax system with the simplest, and the best tax reform with the one that most simplifies the system. However, the simplest, most elegant policy need not be the best because tax policy involves ...
A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services connection-Oriented Networks
(2002-07)
We present an approach to the admission control and resource allocation problem in connection-oriented networks that offer multiple services to users. Users' preferences are summarized by means of their utility functions, ...
Labor Market Flexibility in Central and East Europe
(2002-08-01)
I explore the extent to which insufficient labor market flexibility is an important factor causing Central and East European (CEE) economies to perform worse than they could and hence slowing down their readiness to enter ...
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 ...
Auction Protocols for Decentralized Scheduling
(2001)
Scheduling is the problem of allocating resources to alternate possible uses over designated periods of time. Several have proposed (and some have tried) market-based approaches to decentralized versions of the problem, ...
Do Tax Havens Flourish?
(2004)
Tax haven countries offer foreign investors low tax rates and other tax features designed to attract investment and thereby stimulate economic activity. Major tax havens have less than one percent of the world's population ...
Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing what to Learn
(2002-11)
In an economy in which a producer must learn the preferences of a consumer population, it is faced with a classic decision problem: when to explore and when to exploit. If the producer has a limited number of chances to ...
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 ...
Computational Analysis of the Impact on India of the Uruguay Round and the Forthcoming WTO Trade Negotiations
(2000-05-01)
The Indian economy has experienced a major transformation during the decade of the 1990s. Apart from the impact of various unilateral economic reforms undertaken since 1991, the economy also had to reorient itself to the ...