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An Economic Perspective on Russia's Accession to the WTO
(2002-06-11)
Russia's application for accession to the WTO is currently in its final phases and may be completed by the end of 2003. In this context, this paper provides some background information on Russia's recent policy and ...
Incentive Contracting versus Ownership Reforms: Evidence from China's Township and Village Enterprises
(2000-11-01)
We use a unique data set to study the implications of introducing managerial incentives and, in addition to incentives, better defined ownership for a firm's financial performance. The data set traces the ten-year history ...
The influence of actual and unrequited interventions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-04)
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports ...
Investment, Credit Rationing and the Soft Budget Constraint: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
(2001-02-01)
Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on industrial firms in the Czech Republic during 1992-98, we find that (a) foreign owned companies invest the most ...
Employment and Wages in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition: Evidence From Central Europe and Russia
(2000-06-01)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of employment and wage behavior of firms in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2005-01-01)
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies ...
Defensive and Strategic Restructuring of Firms during the Transition to a Market Economy
(2003-02-01)
We develop a theoretical framework and provide empirical estimates of the extent of several forms of restructuring in 130 privatized firms in a model transition economy (Slovenia) during the 1996-1998 period. In view of ...
The effects of optimal time of day on persuasion processes in older adults
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-05)
Past research demonstrates that the majority of older adults (60 years and older) perform resource-demanding tasks better in the morning than in the afternoon or evening. The authors ask whether this time-of-day effect ...
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
(2007-05)
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature ...