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Russian Firms in Transition: Champions, Challengers, and Chaff

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1996

This paper proposes a composite measure to evaluate a firm's survival potential. The composite measure is applied to 51 Russian firms located in Moscow, Volgograd, Rostov and Taganrog, utilizing data collected in 1995 from in-depth interviews with top-level managers of manufacturing, trade, and...

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The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Lessons from the Argentine Wine Industry

Dermott, Gerald Mc - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Through a comparative, longitudinal analysis of the wine industry in two Argentine provinces, this article examines how different political approaches to reform shape the ability of societies to build new institutions for economic upgrading. The article finds that inherited structural factors...

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

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of … market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. …

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Depreciation and Russian Corporate Finance: A Pragmatic Approach to Surviving thr Transition

Linz, Susan L. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

Are Russian firms being allowed to clean the slate with respect to the Soviet legacy of obsolete capital stock? If estimates of capital productivity and firm-level efficiency in Soviet industry are correct, enterprise managers in Russia's emerging market economy will lobby for high depreciation...

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Ownership and Employment in Russian Industry: 1992-1995

Linz, Susan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

Using data collected from a panel of 6,205 civilian manufacturing firms located in the Central, Volga, North Caucasus, Northern and Western Siberian regions of Russia, this paper examines the hypotheses that in the first stage of the transition process (1) Russian industry exhibited a low labor...

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Labor Productivity in Transition: A Regional Analysis of Russian Industry

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines within-industry variation in labor productivity at the beginning of Russia's transition process in 1992, as well as regional variation in the percentage of firms that exhibit below industry average labor productivity. The main hypothesis is that industries and regions where a...

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Enterprise Restructuring in Russia's Transition Economy: Formal and Informal Mechanisms

Linz, Susan J.; Krueger, Gary - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data. The first involves a panel of over 2,000 civilian manufacturing firms in Moscow, Tver, Volgograd, Rostov, and Novosibirsk. The second involves data collected from a series of...

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Restructuring with What Success? A Case Study of Russian Firms

Linz, Susan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

This case study of enterprise restructuring utilizes data collected from thirty-two former state-owned firms in Taganrog, Russia, in the summer and fall of 1999. These data are used to construct three composite measures of enterprise restructuring. When defined broadly to include several...

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Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries: Can We Trust GDP?

Feige, Edgar L.; Urban, Ivica - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

This paper compiles alternative estimates of underground economies in twenty five transition countries during the transition decade and finds a disturbing lack of convergence between them, calling into question the reliability of GDP figures (which in varying degrees now include non-transparent...

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Implications of ERM2 for Poland’s Monetary Policy

Orlowski, Lucjan; Rybinski, Krzyzstof - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

This study proposes an extension to the inflation targeting framework for Poland that takes into consideration the exchange rate stability constraints imposed by the obligatory participation in the ERM2 on the path to the euro. The modified policy framework is based on targeting the differential...

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