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The Case for Financial Sector Liberalization in Ethiopia
(2007-08-24)
This paper focuses on issues of financial sector liberalization in Ethiopia, with reference
in particular to the Ethiopian banking sector. We identify two factors that may constrain
Ethiopia’s financial development. One ...
How to Increase R & D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
(2007-06-15)
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 ...
China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European
(2007-06-15)
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 ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2008-10-16)
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 ...
Tom Sawyer production on the Internet: Getting the good stuff in, keeping the bad stuff out
(2010-10-24)
User-contributed content as an input to the production of information services is not new, but it is growing rapidly in significance and prevalence. Open-source software, Wikipedia, and Flickr are but a few examples of ...
Argumentation in Foreign Policy Settings
(Sage Publications, 1977)
This is a study of argumentation in three different kinds of high level, confidential, foreign policy settings: a collegial setting, a bureaucratic setting, and a bargaining setting. The causal and value assertions of the ...
Comparative Advantage, Economic Growth, The Gains from Trade and Globalization, and Computational Trade Modeling: Festschrift Papers in Honor of Alan V. Deardorff
(2010-04-12)
Alan Deardorff was 65 years old on June 6, 2009. To celebrate this occasion, a Festschrift in Alan’s honor was held on Friday and Saturday, October 2-3, 2009, in the Rackham Amphitheater at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The terms-of-trade effect on expenditure : Some evidence from econometric models
(Elsevier, 1978-08)
The terms-of-trade effect on expenditure has been a long-recognized theoretical construct. In this paper, we examine the empirical credibility of this effect, using the expenditure equations of several large econometric ...