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- Political Risk of Social Security: Evidence from Reforms in Hungary and the Czech Republic.
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The document describes the political risk of social security in Hungary and the Czech Republic by measuring the changes in the social security wealth induced by the pension reforms undertaken in these countries since the 1990s.
- Corporate Governance Risk: Executive Summary for Hungary
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The paper introduces the results of the Corporate Governance Risk Survey, which attempts to measure and compare the corporate governance risk (CGR) in four Central European countries.
- Labour Costs Versus Labour Market Development. Empirical evidence for Polish, Czech and Hungarian manufacturing industry
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May 15, 2007 09:51
The paper analyses the relationship between labour costs and employment development in manufacturing industry in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.
- Changes in the Competitive Position of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in the EU Market
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May 15, 2007 09:51
This paper aims at comparing the uneven process of changes in competitiveness among three accession countries' manufacturing industries, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, during the period prior to their EU membership (1996-2003).
- Differences in productivity and its determinants among firms from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Germany. The case of the cosmetics industry
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper assesses differences in productivity and its determinants among enterprises manufacturing cosmetics and detergents (NACE 245) and located in Germany and in three EU new member states.
- The Development of Insolvency Procedures in Transition Economies: a Comparative Analysis
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The aim of the paper is to identify the role of insolvency procedures in TEs and analysing the recent developments in insolvency legislation in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
- Tax Systems in the Selected Transition Economies
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper discusses the Value Added Tax, Personal Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax and excise tax in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Kyrgyz Republic.
- Agriculture of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in Perspective of Joining Common Agricultural Policy – with Some Fiscal Remarks
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper discusses problems connected with the accession of Central European Countries (CECs) to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
- A Short Play on the Idea of the Laffer Curve in Transition Economies
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper examines whether Laffer Curve exists in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
- Public Debt Structure and Dynamics in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper attempts to consider in a systematic way the developments of the public debt in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania during the 1990’s.
- Trends in the Region No. 2.: Factors and Impacts in the Information Society: Hungary and the New Member States
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The publication tries to identify the common factors affecting the development of information society and economy in the New Member States and in the three Associated Candidate Countries.
- Privatization experience of some CEE and CIS countries. Lessons for Belarus
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper was prepared within the Economic Policy Institutes Network program. It considers concrete privatization goals with the review of results and cases for four countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
- Relocation to the NMS countries - the case of Hungary
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The study assesses the potentials and likely areas of relocation of industrial activity towards Hungary .
- Foreign Currency Denominated Borrowing in Central Europe: Trends, Factors and Consequences
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper presents the evidence concerning the growth of foreign currency denominated borrowing in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
- Quarterly Forecast on the Eastern EU Member States-1st quarter, 2007
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May 15, 2007 09:53
Short-term forecasts on growth, inflation, internal and external balance and major macroeconomic trends in the Eastern EU Member States: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
- Business environment and enterprise behaviour in East Germany compared to West Germany and central Europe
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper examines the institutional differences between the former East and West Germany and four central European transition countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic). Using enterprise survey data, the paper shows that the quality of institutions in the former East Germany still differs from that in former West Germany. It also finds that enterprises in the transition countries have compensated for institutional deficiencies by focusing on innovation and investment in human capital.
- Assessing macroeconomic vulnerability in Central Europe
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May 16, 2007 14:41
The central European transition-accession countries experienced several periods of macroeconomic vulnerability since the end of output declines in early 1990s. Some notable periods, which resulted in a necessity to implement extensive stabilisation measures, are March 1995 in Hungary, May 1997 in the Czech Republic, and September 1998 in the Slovak Republic. This paper shows that the standard early warning indicators provided useful information on macroeconomic vulnerability prior to the crises in central Europe,
- Optimal design of bank bailouts: the case of transition economies
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November 23, 2007 13:03
In most recent banking crises bank regulators have been caught off their guard and have been forced to respond to the crisis in a hurry without the support of an institutional or legal framework designed to deal with bank failures. This is in sharp contrast with the non-financial sector, where a detailed and elaborate bankruptcy law governs the process of liquidation or reorganisation of financially distressed firms. In this paper we address the question of how to design a bankruptcy institution for banks that would serve a similar purpose as existing bankruptcy laws for non-financial firms.
- Competition and performance in the Hungarian second pillar
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November 23, 2007 13:28
The performance of the Hungarian second pillar since inception has been mixed. This is partly due to a less than satisfactory support for the 1997 pension reform, conservative fund portfolio distributions, the hybrid nature of the mandatory pension fund system, the segmented nature of the market in terms of costs, and a less than aggressive commitment on the part of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority to a low-cost, transparent, and competitive equilibrium.
- The microeconomics of creating productive jobs : a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies
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November 23, 2007 13:32
The challenge for labor market policy in the transition economies has been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive jobs. The authors first document the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

