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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)
Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets
(2004-05-01)
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes spinoffs almost exclusively in ...
Priorities and Sequencing in Privatization: Theory and Evidence from the Czech Republic
(2000-05-01)
While privatization of state-owned enterprises has been one of the most important aspects of economic transition from a centrally planned to a market system, no transition economy has privatized all its firms simultaneously. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deterring discrimination with data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1984-05)
Discrimination on grounds of race, sex, and handicap persists in many local school districts in spite of nearly twenty years of sustained attention from federal policymakers. Because litigation proceeds slowly and expensively, ...
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 ...