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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"transition countries"”.
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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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A study of corruption in transition countries
… the BEEPS I, a firm level survey covering 24 transition countries, the chapter 1 examines whether reported bribe payments by firms are higher when firms face numerous officials or only a single one. We find that bribe payments are higher under a more decentralized bureaucratic structure. In …
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The gender wage gap in developing and transition countries
… wage gap with a specific focus on developing and transition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse the gender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing and transition countries and its main findings. Then, …
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Essays on Firm Boundaries and Firm Organization in Transition countries
… and firm characteristics. The focus is on transition countries, after the massive privatization period. The reasons are threefold: i) essential differences that emerged in performances of countries with similar heritages and starting points ii) the need to quantify the impact of …
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Three Papers on Liberalization Policies in Developing and Transition Countries
… in the telecommunications industry in developing countries suggests that deeper financial markets and government deficits help constrain political temptation to bargain with insiders."
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Az értékelés és a hatásvizsgálat módszereinek alkalmazása a kisvállalkozás-fejlesztési politikában. A közép- és kelet-európai országok gyakorlatából merített esettanulmányokkal = The Application of Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Small Enterprise Development Policies With case studies of SME development in transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe
A Ph.D. disszertáció részben módszertani, részben pedig szubsztantív jellegű célokat követ. A dolgozat módszertani természetű célja, hogy bemutassa és osztályozza az értékelés és hatáselemzés azon módszereit, melyek már beváltak a kisvállalkozás-fejlesztési politika cél- és eszközrendszerének …
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THE CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
… may be no better time for Sub-Saharan African countries to create the conditions for a more peaceful and democratic reality than now. This optimism is driven in part by the possibilities for development unleashed by neoliberal globalization and the current tremendous human and material …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Municipal Budget Policy in Countries with Economies in Transition: Comparing Local Revenue Systems
… budgeting and fiscal autonomy in selected transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The implications of legislative changes on local budgets and revenue authority are analyzed. Discrepancies between legal provisions and actual fiscal practices are identified on the basis of case …
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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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Institutions, Government, and Development
… on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what hierarchies they have, …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
… on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what hierarchies they have, …
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Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China
… China is one of the most remarkable scenarios in transition countries. With the dismantlement of collectivized farming and the rural reforms since the late 1970s, villages have become diverse in terms of institutional structure. In some villages, one or a few cadres still dominate decision making …
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The rule of law in Vietnam: role and impact of informal institutions
… to institutional reform in developing and transition countries. However, attempts to establish the rule of law often raise problems and fundamental questions .about the nature of this concept and conditions necessary for such reforms to succeed. This thesis examines and discusses the issue …
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Firm heterogeneity and political economy of international trade
… source heterogeneity in the flow of oil among countries. The results show that ignoring these controls introduces significant biases in the estimation of the elasticities of oil trade with respect to its determinants. We employ the estimation results to analyze the role of various factors in …
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Challenges in the implementation of performance management : case study of the Russian public services, Krasnoyarsk City
… designed by the private sector in Western countries and then adopted by the public sector. Now, performance management has become a global reform also implemented in the public sector of countries in transition such as Russia. A system of performance management has been designed and …
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Designing for the periphery / Learning + Community Center in a Post Covid-19 Era in Tirana, Albania
… damage resulted in particular regions. In many transition countries comprised of disproportional density of population and services between urban and rural areas, socioeconomic problems were pervasive. In this framework, major importance should be given to services that are needed in these …
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
… mixed results for industrialized and developing countries and some of them have demonstrated that there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal …
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