Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 Central Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning
consistently outperform those ...
This paper estimates a simple model of exchange rate policy where the Central Bank
optimises an objective function which takes into account competitiveness, its
commitment to the EMU and the cost of adjustment. We allow ...
Using a dataset that allows consistent cross-country comparisons the non-linearity in a conventional earnings equation is tested with respect to schooling. The findings suggest that the assumption of linearity is not robust ...