CERT Discussion Papers

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0809: Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: Cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev and Mark Schaffer

0808: (ebook) Vodka and Pickled Cabbage: Eastern European Travels of a Professional Economist

Paul Hare

0807: Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

0806: Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John Earle and Scott Gehlbach

0805: Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

J. David Brown and John Earle

0804: Institutions and Diversification of the Economies in Transition: Policy Challenges

Paul Hare

0803: Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes for MENA countries: Gravity Model Estimates of the Trade Effects

Christopher Adam and David Cobham

0802: A Study of Changing Income Distribution in Kazakhstan Using a New Social Accounting Matrix and Household Survey Data

Paul Hare and Alexander Naumov

0801: Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998: Evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

0711: Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

0710: Industrial Policy for North Korea: Lessons from Transition

Paul Hare

0709: Informal Sector, Income Inequality and Economic Development

Prabir C. Bhattacharya

0708: ROSCA Participation in Benin: A Commitment Issue

Olivier Dagnelie and Philippe LeMay-Boucher

0707: Insurance for the Poor: The Case of Informal Insurance Groups in Benin

Philippe LeMay-Boucher

0706: Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/GMM estimation and testing

Christopher Baum, Mark Schaffer and Steven Stillman

0705: Inside Beninese Households: How Spouses Manage their Personal Income

Philippe LeMay-Boucher

0704: Wage determination and wage inequality inside a Russian firm in late transition: Evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

0703: Determinants of Credit Participation and Its Impact on Household Consumption: Evidence From Rural Vietnam

Cuong H. Nguyen

0702: The Political Economy of Growth and Governance

Paul Hare

0701: General Equilibrium: Arbitrage and Information

Nikita Kuksin

0606: Informal Employment in Russia: Combining Disadvantages and Opportunities

Irina Merkuryeva

0605: Corporate Governance and Firm Performance in Ukraine

Vitaliy Zheka

0604: Where are the Real Bottlenecks? A Lagrangian Approach to Identifying Constraints on Growth from Subjective Survey Data

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

0603: Institutions and Development: What We (Think We) Know, What We Would Like to Know

Paul Hare and Junior Davis

0602: An Alternative Estimation Framework for Firm-Level Capital Investment

Julian Fennema

0601: Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Volodymyr Vakhitov

0509: Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

0508: The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

0507: The Hyperinflation Model of Money Demand (or Cagan Revisited): Some New Empirical Evidence from the 1990s

Atanas Christev

0506: Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

0505: Exchange Rate Regimes and Trade

Christopher Adam and David Cobham

0504: The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti and Jonathan Wadsworth

0503: Productivity, Ownership and the Investment Climate: International Lessons for Priorities in Serbia

Itzhak Goldberg, Branko Radulovic and Mark Schaffer

0502: Financial Sector Reform in China

Michael Thorpe

0501: Do Institutional Investors Destabilize Stock Prices? Evidence from an Emerging Market

Martin T. Bohl and Janusz Brzeszczynski

0411: The Impact on Ukraine of Joining the WTO: Subsidies vs. Antidumping in Ferrous Metallurgy

Igor Eremenko and Katerina Lisenkova

0410: Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

0409: Short-Term Dependencies between the Volatility of Currency, Money and Capital Markets: The Case of Poland

Janusz Brzeszczynski and Robert Kelm

0408: Determinants of Short-term Volatility at the Warsaw Stock Exchange: In-sample vs. Out-of-sample Forecasts from Factor and Predictive GARCH Models

Janusz Brzeszczynski and Aleksander Welfe

0407: Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

0406: The Relationship between Economic Performance and Accounting System Reform in the CEE Region: The Cases of Poland and Romania

Katarzyna Kosmala MacLullich and Calin Gurau

0405: What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

0404: Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

0403: Rural Off-Farm Employment and Farm Investment: An Analytical Framework and Evidence from Zimbabwe

Cornilius Chikwama

0402: A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

0401: The Great Transformation: Russia's Return to the World Economy

Paul Hare, Mark Schaffer and Anna Shabunina

0305: Social Aspects of Industrial Restructuring and their Financing

Paul Hare

0304: Setting the Stage for Stability and Progress in Southeast Europe

Paul Hare

0303: Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots different? Evidence from the BHPS

Axel Heitmueller

0302: Co-ordination Failures in Network Migration

Axel Heitmueller