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155: Improving regional performance in Russia: a capability-based approach

Fadi Farra, Nadia Klos, Uwe Schober, Olga Sigalova and Alexander Zhukov

154: How much do tariffs matter? Evidence from the customs union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia

Asel Isakova, Zsoka Koczan and Alexander Plekhanov

153: The right-wing power of small countries

Franto Ricka

152: The impact of armed conflict on firms’ performance and perceptions

Carly Petracco and Helena Schweiger

151: Can consumer confidence data predict real variables? Evidence from Croatia

Marija Kuzmanovic and Peter Joseph Sanfey

150: The interest group theory of financial development: evidence from regulation

Cagatay Bircan, David Hauner and Alessandro Prati

149: Innocent bystanders: How foreign uncertainty shocks harm exporters

Daria Taglioni and Veronika Zavacka

148: The bullwhip effect and the Great Trade Collapse

Veronika Zavacka

147: Generosity norms and intrinsic motivation in health care provision: evidence from the laboratory and the field

J. Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Kenneth L. Leonard

146: Microfinance at the Microfinance at the margin: experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina vidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir

145: Making sense of competitiveness indicators in south-eastern Europe

Peter Joseph Sanfey and Simone Zeh

144: Management quality, firm performance and market pressure in Russia

Guido Friebel and Helena Schweiger

143: Foreign banks and the Vienna Initiative: turning sinners into saints

Ralph De Haas, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Elena Loukoianova and Alexander Pivovarsky

142: International shock transmission after the Lehman Brothers collapse – evidence from syndicated lending

Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen

141: Entrepreneurship in the transition region: an analysis based on the Life in Transition Survey

Elena Nikolova, Frantisek Ricka and Dora Simroth

140: Learning, political attitudes and the crisis in transition countries

Pauline Grosjean, Frantisek Ricka and Claudia Senik

139: Dictating the risk – experimental evidence on giving in risky environments

J. Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Erkut Y. Ozbay

138: Managing Mongolia’s resource boom

Asel Isakova, Alexander Plekhanov and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

137: Forecasting growth in eastern Europe and central Asia

Franziska Ohnsorge and Yevgeniya Korniyenko

136: Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart

135: Multinational banks and the global financial crisis: weathering the perfect storm?

Ralph De Haas and Iman van Lelyveld

134: Labour markets and representative institutions: evidence from colonial British America

Elena Nikolova

133: What makes growth sustained?

Andrew Gouinlock Berg, Jonathan David Ostry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

132: Basel III and regional financial integration in emerging Europe An overview of key issues

Alexander Lehmann, Micol Levi and Peter Tabak

131: The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries

Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger and John Michael van Reenen

130: Employment concentrat ion and resource al locat ion: one-company towns in Russia

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Alexander Plekhanov

129: Performance of domestic and cross-border acquisitions: empirical evidence from Russian acquirers

Olivier Bertrand and Marie-Ann Betschinger

128: Unequal effects of liberalisation on diversification of Russia’s regions

Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

127: The impact of state aid for restructuring on the allocation of resources

Helena Schweiger

126: Economic transition, firm organisation and internal control: determinants of audit structure in Russian firms

Ichiro Iwasaki, John Michael van Reenen and Toby Wolfe

125: Region-specific constraints to doing business: evidence from Russia

Alexander Plekhanov and Asel Isakova

124: Running for the exit: international banks and crisis transmission

Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen

123: Financial integration and growth - Is emerging Europe different?

Christian Friedrich, Isabel Schnabel and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

122: Foreign currency lending in emerging Europe: bank-level evidence

Martin Brown and Ralph De Haas

121: Institutions and economic performance: What can be explained?

Simon Commander and Zlatko Nikoloski

120: Euroisation in Serbia

Alexandre Chailloux, Franziska Ohnsorge and David Vavra

119: Microeconomic implications of credit booms: evidence from emerging Europe

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel L. Driffield, Sarmistha Pal and Isabelle Roland

118: Fostering growth in CEE countries: a country-tailored approach to growth policy

Philippe Aghion, Heike Harmgart and Natalia Weisshaar

117: The crisis as a wake-up call: do banks tighten screening and monitoring during a financial crisis?

Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen

116: Cross country differences in job reallocation: the role of industry, firm size and regulations

John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger

115: Addressing private sector currency mismatches in emerging Europe

Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Piroska M. Nagy and Stephen Jeffrey

114: Earnings inequality and the informal economy: evidence from Serbia

Peter Joseph Sanfey and Gorana Krstic

113: South-eastern Europe: lessons from the global economic crisis

Peter Sanfrey

112: In the wake of the crisis: dealing with distressed debt across the transition region

Ralph De Haas and Stephan Knobloch

111: Fiscal decentralisation and the quality of public services in Russian regions

Alexander Plekhanov and Lev Freinkman

110: Monitoring managers: does it matter?

Francesca Cornelli, Zbigniew Kominek and Alexander Ljungqvist

108: Development based on commodity revenues

Alexander Plekhanov, Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin

107: Chinese investment in the transition countries

Yevgeniya Korniyenko and Toshiaki Sakatsume

106: The determinants of performance in building infrastructure in transition economies

Gabriela Dobrescu, Guido Friebel, Pauline Grosjean and Katrin Robeck

105: Internal capital markets and lending by multinational bank subsidiaries

Ralph De Haas and Iman van Lelyveld