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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Transition Economies"”.
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Essay on labour supply in transition economies.
… individual hours of work decision in fi ve transition economies. Employing the modifi ed Heckman estimation procedure the study fi nds positive and modest wage elasticities of labour supply in all the countries reviewed. This finding is consistent with stylized fact that those countries …
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Optimal regulatory design in banking in transition economies
… to the optimal regulatory design of banks in transition economies. The contributions in this dissertation are mainly empirical, but also contain some significant theoretical insights. The countries under investigation are Russia (Part I) and Central and Eastern Europe (Part II). In a first …
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Institutional and macroeconomic policy dynamics in transition economies
… of some of the developmental challenges facing transition economies. The thesis provides empirical and theoretical analyses on some of the institutional and macroeconomic challenges experienced by transition economies along their developmental trajectory. The thesis begins with an analysis of …
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Corporate governance and corporate performance: Implications for transition economies
… position in the marketplace. In addition, from a transitional markets point of view, the study examines what information can be disclosed to company's stakeholders for monitoring its performance, thus providing an evidence that helps corporate stakeholders to certify the company's business affairs.
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Output performance, institutions and structural policy reforms for transition economies
… between three groups of variables in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), from 1989 to 2003. The first group consists of output level and output growth as measured by gross domestic product index (GDPI) and gross …
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Educational Investment, Human Capital and Economic Growth - Evidence from Transition Economies
V ABSTRAKT Teorie lidského kapitálu předpokládá, že vzdělání může přispět k hospodářskému růstu. Empirické důkazy však ukazují smíšené pozitivní a negativní vztahy mezi investicemi do vzdělání a hospodářským růstem. Zatím existuje jen málo literatury věnované vlivu investic do vzdělání na …
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The financial performance of privatised firms: evidence from three transition economies
… of the solution for the commitment problem in economies in transition, and empirical evidence on how best to design a privatisation programme in order to secure an efficient use of resources. This thesis contributes to this debate by focusing on privatisation programmes and the financial …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… survey to examine one outcome of a decade-long transition in Albania, the earnings gap between men and women. The average gender earnings gap is calculated at 31 percent, but it is found to be as high as 50 percent in the upper parts of the distribution. The traditional Oaxaca-Blinder method and …
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Sector-Switching in Transition Economies: A Case Study of Kazakhstan's Health Care Sector
… also offers insights into the dynamics of the transition from a centralized economy to a market economy. As such, its findings have `real-world' applications beyond the particular case being studied i.e. Kazakhstan. This study is based on two simple claims. First, fundamental to the reforms …
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The impact of earnings management on innovation strategies in developed, developing, and transition economies
… strategies in developed, developing and transition economies. The study examines earnings management models and utilises accruals models: standard Jones model (Dechow and Sloan, 1991), Modified Jones model (Dechow et al., 1995), Kothari model (Kothari et al., 2005) working capital …
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External factors of economic growth in the transition: economies of the Baltics and Central Asia
In the context of increasing interrelatedness of economies, foreign trade and capital flows may prove crucial when considering their growth perspectives. This assertion is corroborated by contrasting growth experiences of the Baltic and Central Asian transition economies, which have undergone …
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The role of human capital in the private manufacturing sector productivity in the developing and transition economies.
… between production functions across economies in different developmental phases, which can be used as a suitable platform for analysing the distinctive effects of human capital composition on efficiency, and growth in each region in comparison with the other. In addition, the applied …
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The Nexus of State Regulation and Economic Development in Transition Economies (An empirical assessment using Central Asian countries)
… and growth nexus in the case of Central Asian economies, this research demonstrates how a more broader conceptualization of the notion of state regulation can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the issues and yield somewhat different outcomes than the standard literature. In …
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Tourism development in transition economies: an evaluation of the development of tourism at a Black sea coastal destination during political and socio-economic transition.
… and development of coastal destinations in the transition economy of Bulgaria. It takes further the tradition in tourism studies that calls for the incorporation of the contextual change in the process of destination development. The purpose of this study was to determine whether, and in what …
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Efficiency, investment and bank lending in transition and emerging economies
This thesis studies the economic development in transition and emerging economies with focus on three particular economic issues: production efficiency, physical investment rate and bank lending under bank ownership perspective. The thesis chooses to study transition and emerging economies because …
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Local-level policies for small firm sector development in Russia and Hungary: a comparative analysis.
… from centrally-planned to market-type economies in Eastern Europe. From the outset, reforms were shaped by a neo-liberal policy agenda which was grounded in the belief that private ownership and markets would bring about resource reallocation and instigate growth. However, the …
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Essays in economics
… 1, we estimate equilibrium dollar wages for 15 transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union. Equilibrium dollar wages are interpreted as full employment wages consistent with a country's physical and human capital endowment, and estimated by regressing …
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Banking in Transition Countries
… loans. I demonstrate that decisions of firms in transition economies to secure loans are consistent with the decisions of firms in more advanced economies and that presence of collateral is associated with riskier loans. At the firm level, I find that firms' decision to pledge collateral is …
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