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Decentralized dynamic processes for finding equilibrium
(Elsevier, 1992-04)
This paper describes a class of decentralized dynamic processes designed to converge to equilibrium when the equilibrium equations are linear. These processes can also be viewed as distributed algorithms for solving systems ...
Should Patent Protection Be Extended to All Developing Countries?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1990-12)
Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
(1997-05-01)
We analyze investment behavior of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992-95. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behavior ...
Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy: (Why) Were the Czechs More Successful than Others?
(1998-01-01)
Using panel district level data from the Czech and Slovak Republic in the 1990s, we find that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other CEE economies has been brought ...
Sectoral effects of reductions in NATO military expenditures in the major industrialized and developing countries
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the sectoral effects of (1) a 25 percent unilateral reduction of military expenditures in the individual NATO countries and (2) a 25 percent multilateral ...
Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
(1999-10-01)
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the ...
Diverging Populations and Endogenous Growth in a Model of Meaningless Trade
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1999-08)