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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
(2007-01)
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable ...
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)
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 ...
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
The validity of using local market data to measure the benefits associated with policies adopted in an urban area is investigated. It is shown that the rest of the world is affected by taxing decisions undertaken in a ...
Counting Groves-Ledyard equilibria via degree theory
(Elsevier, 1983-10)
We study the Groves-Ledyard mechanism for determining optimal amounts of public goods in economies whose agents have the most general class of preferences for which a Pareto amount of public goods can be computed independently ...
FDI in Emerging Markets: A Home-Country View
(1999-06-01)
In the 1950s and 60s, the American view of foreign direct investment(FDI) in emerging markets, then called less-developed or developing countries, was that it was desirable for three reasons: as a vehicle for economic ...