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Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges
- Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- 1 February 2002
I present data and assess the first twelve years of the transition from plan to market. Transformations have taken place, but the income gap between the transition and advanced economies has widened.… Expand
Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies
- S. Estrin, J. Hanousek, Evžen Ko�?enda, Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- 1 January 2009
In this paper, we evaluate what we have learned to date about the effects of privatization from the experiences during the last fifteen to twenty years in the postcommunist (transition) economies… Expand
Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
- Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Švejnar, K. Terrell
- Business, Economics
- 1 November 2008
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors… Expand
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
- Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Švejnar, Katherine Terrell
- Business
- 1 September 2007
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the… Expand
Returns to Human Capital Under The Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
- Daniel Mnich, Jan Švejnar, K. Terrell
- Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 1 March 2000
We estimate returns to human capital during communism and the transition using data on 2,284 men in the Czech Republic. We show: (a) extremely low and constant rates of return to education under the… Expand
Bargaining power, fear of disagreement and wage settlements: theory and evidence from U.S. industry
- Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- 1986
The paper develops and estimates a theoretical model of wage determination and union-nonunion wage differentials. In order to overcome the institutional ctiticisms of the formal bargaining… Expand
Unemployment and the Social Safety Net During Transitions to a Market Economy: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
- John C. Ham, Jan Švejnar, Katherine Terrell
- Economics
- 1 December 1997
The authors investigate the remarkably short unemployment spells in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia and other Central and East European economies. They estimate hazard functions and find that… Expand
Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance
- S. Commander, Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- 21 January 2011
We use two large samples of firms to assess the effects of business environment constraints, competition, export orientation, and ownership on firm performance. We deal with omitted variables, errors… Expand
Investment, Credit Rationing, and the Soft Budget Constraint: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
- Lubomr Lzal, Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 2002
Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on industrial firms in the Czech Republic during 1992-1998, we find that foreign-owned… Expand
Equity and Development
- G. Kochendörfer-Lucius, B. Pleskovic, +14 authors Jan Švejnar
- Economics
- 2006
This year, the workshop examined the conceptual foundation of the workshop sessions by discussing the definition of equity itself. What do we mean by equity, and how does equity differ from equality?… Expand
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