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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Financial Conditions and Investment during the Transition: Evidence from Czech Firms
(2001-10-01)
In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of medium and large industrial firms in the Czech Republic during the 1992-95 period. We examine the relevance ...
Computational Analysis of the Impact on India of the Uruguay Round and the Forthcoming WTO Trade Negotiations
(2000-05-01)
The Indian economy has experienced a major transformation during the decade of the 1990s. Apart from the impact of various unilateral economic reforms undertaken since 1991, the economy also had to reorient itself to the ...
Unemployment in East and West Europe
(2007-04)
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western ...
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 ...