The Working Paper series has been produced to stimulate debate on the economic transformation of central and eastern Europe and the CIS. Views presented are those of the authors and not necessarily of the EBRD.
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Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence (219KB - PDF)
by Simon Commander, Olexandr Nikolaychuk and Dmytro Vikhrov
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April 2013 |
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Improving regional performance in Russia: a capability-based approach (2MB - PDF)
by Fadi Farra, Nadia Klos, Uwe Schober, Olga Sigalova and Alexander Zhukov
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January 2013 |
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How much do tariffs matter? Evidence from the customs union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia (355KB - PDF)
by Asel Isakova, Zsoka Koczan and Alexander Plekhanov
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January 2013 |
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The right-wing power of small countries (434KB - PDF)
by Franto Ricka
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December 2012 |
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The impact of armed conflict on firms’ performance and perceptions (1MB - PDF)
by Carly Petracco and Helena Schweiger
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December 2012 |
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Can consumer confidence data predict real variables? Evidence from Croatia (1MB - PDF)
by Marija Kuzmanović and Peter Sanfey
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November 2012 |
The interest group theory of financial development: evidence from regulation (405KB - PDF)
by Cagatay Bircan, David Hauner and Alessandro Prati |
November 2012 |
Innocent bystanders: how foreign uncertainty shocks harm exporters (391KB - PDF)
by Daria Taglioni and Veronika Zavacka |
October 2012 |
The bullwhip effect and the Great Trade Collapse (304KB - PDF)
by Veronika Zavacka |
October 2012 |
Generosity norms and intrinsic motivation in health care provision: evidence from the laboratory and the field (728KB - PDF)
by Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Kenneth L. Leonard |
October 2012 |
Microfinance at the margin: experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina (2MB - PDF)
by Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir |
September 2012 |
Making sense of competitiveness indicators in south-eastern Europe (576KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfey and Simone Zeh |
July 2012 |
Management quality, firm performance and market pressure in Russia (183KB - PDF)
by Guido Friebel and Helena Schweiger |
May 2012 |
Foreign banks and the Vienna Initiative: turning sinners into saints (306KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Elena Loukoianova, and Alexander Pivovarsky |
March 2012 |
International shock transmission after the Lehman Brothers collapse – evidence from syndicated lending (154KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen |
March 2012 |
Entrepreneurship in the transition region: an analysis based on the Life in Transition Survey (302KB - PDF)
by Elena Nikolova, Frantisek Ricka and Dora Simroth |
March 2012 |
Learning, political attitudes and the crisis in transition countries (336KB - PDF)
by Pauline Grosjean, Frantisek Ricka and Claudia Senik |
January 2012 |
Dictating the risk – experimental evidence on giving in risky environments (337KB - PDF)
by J. Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Erkut Y. Ozbay |
January 2012 |
Managing Mongolia's resource boom (162KB - PDF)
by Asel Isakova, Alexander Plekhanov and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
January 2012 |
Forecasting growth in eastern Europe and central Asia (296KB - PDF)
by Franziska Ohnsorge and Yevgeniya Korniyenko |
December 2011 |
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia (419KB - PDF)
by Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart |
December 2011 |
Multinational banks and the global financial crisis: weathering the perfect storm? (801KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas and Iman Van Lelyveld |
December 2011 |
Labour markets and representative institutions: evidence from colonial British America
(707KB - PDF)by Elena Nikolova |
October 2011 |
What makes growth sustained? (389KB - PDF)
by Andrew Berg, Jonathan D. Ostry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
October 2011 |
Basel III and regional financial integration in emerging Europe: an overview of key issues (159KB - PDF)
by Alexander Lehmann, Micol Levi and Peter Tabak |
July 2011 |
The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries (553KB - PDF)
by Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger and John Van Reenen |
June 2011 |
Employment concentration and resource allocation: one-company towns in Russia (234KB - PDF)
by Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Alexander Plekhanov |
June 2011 |
Performance of domestic and cross-border acquisitions: empirical evidence from Russian acquirers (158KB - PDF)
by Olivier Bertrand and Marie-Ann Betschinger |
June 2011 |
Unequal effects of liberalisation on diversification of Russia’s regions (205KB - PDF)
by Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya |
June 2011 |
The impact of state aid for restructuring on the allocation of resources (622KB - PDF)
by Helena Schweiger |
May 2011 |
Economic transition, firm organisation and internal control: determinants of audit structure in Russian firms (395KB - PDF)
by Ichiro Iwasaki |
May 2011 |
Region-specific constraints to doing business: evidence from Russia (185KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov and Asel Isakova |
March 2011 |
Running for the exit: international banks and crisis transmission (301KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen |
February 2011 |
Financial integration and growth - Is emerging Europe different? (1MB - PDF)
by Christian Friedrich, Isabel Schnabel and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
December 2010 |
Foreign currency lending in emerging Europe: bank-level evidence (205KB - PDF)
by Martin Brown and Ralph De Haas |
December 2010 |
Institutions and economic performance: What can be explained? (461KB - PDF)
by Simon Commander and Zlatko Nikoloski |
December 2010 |
Euroisation in Serbia (205KB - PDF)
by Alexandre Chailloux, Franziska Ohnsorge and David Vavra |
November 2010 |
Microeconomic implications of credit booms: evidence from emerging Europe (360KB - PDF)
by Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal and Isabelle Roland |
October 2010 |
Fostering growth in CEE countries: a country-tailored approach to growth policy
(259KB - PDF)by Philippe Aghion, Heike Harmgart and Natalia Weisshaar |
October 2010 |
The crisis as a wake-up call: do banks tighten screening and monitoring during a financial crisis? (210KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas and Neeltje van Horen |
August 2010 |
Cross country differences in job reallocation: the
role of industry, firm size and regulations (515KB - PDF)
by John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger |
July 2010 |
Addressing private sector currency mismatches in emerging Europe (291KB - PDF)
by Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Piroska M. Nagy and Stephen Jeffrey |
June 2010 |
Earnings inequality and the informal economy: evidence from Serbia (243KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfey and Gorana Krstic |
March 2010 |
South-eastern Europe: lessons from the global economic crisis (113KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfrey |
February 2010 |
In the wake of the crisis: dealing with distressed debt across the transition region (79KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas and Stephan Knobloch |
February 2010 |
Fiscal decentralisation and the quality of public services in Russian regions (189KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov and Lev Freinkman |
February 2010 |
Monitoring managers: does it matter? (249KB - PDF)
by Francesca Cornelli, Zbigniew Kominek and Alexander Ljungqvist |
January 2010 |
Understanding the crisis in emerging Europe
(247KB - PDF)Erik Berglöf, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Alexander Plekhanov and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
December 2009 |
Development based on commodity revenues (234KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov, Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin |
December 2009 |
Chinese investment in the transition countries (144KB - PDF)
by Yevgeniya Korniyenko and Toshiaki Sakatsume |
February 2009 |
The determinants of performance in building infrastructure in transition economies (220KB - PDF)
by Gabriela Dobrescu, Guido Friebel, Pauline Grosjean and Katrin Robeck |
June 2008 |
Internal capital markets and lending by multinational bank subsidiaries (434KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas and Iman Van Lelyveld |
February 2008 |
What determines banks’ customer choice? Evidence from transition countries (278KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas, Daniel Ferreira and Anita Taci |
November 2007 |
Should market liberalisation precede democracy? Causal relations between political preferences and development (241KB - PDF)
by Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik |
August 2007 |
Business environment and enterprise behaviour in East Germany compared to West Germany and central Europe (289KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska and Katrin Robeck |
June 2007 |
Mobility, poverty and well-being among the informally employed in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(510KB - PDF)by Gorana Krstic and Peter Sanfey |
January 2007 |
Does enterprise-level training compensate for poor country-level skills? (315KB - PDF)
by Joe Colombano and Libor Krkoska |
December 2006 |
Ageing, pension reforms and capital market development in transition countries (327KB - PDF)
by Christiane Nickel and Johan Almenberg |
December 2006 |
Forecasting inflation for transition countries: How accurate are the EBRD forecasts? (252KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska and Utku Teksoz |
September 2006 |
The impact of crime on the enterprise sector: Transition versus non-transition countries (369KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska and Katrin Robeck |
July 2006 |
Regulatory induced herding? Evidence from Polish pension funds (187KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
June 2006 |
Beyond borders: Reconsidering regional trade in Central Asia (296KB - PDF)
by Clemens Grafe, Martin Raiser and Toshiaki Sakatsume |
March 2006 |
Accuracy of growth forecasts for transition countries: Assessing ten years of EBRD forecasting (136KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska and Utku Teksoz |
December 2005 |
Filling the gap in urban transport: Private sector participation in transition countries (127KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
December 2005 |
Can poor consumers pay for energy and water? (196KB - PDF)
by Samuel Fankhauser and Sladjana Tepic |
August 2005 |
Does transition make you happy? (207KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfey and Utku Teksoz |
June 2005 |
Reforms and growth in transition: re-examining the evidence (231KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti, Tatiana Lysenko and Peter Sanfey |
June 2005 |
European financial integration and the financing of local businesses in the new EU member states (360KB - PDF)
by Ulrich Volz |
October 2004 |
Inflation, exchange rates and the role of monetary policy in Albania (129KB - PDF)
by Marta Muço and Peter Sanfey |
September 2004 |
The dynamic adjustment towards target capital structures of firms in transition economies (232KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas and Marga Peeters |
July 2004 |
Cost efficiency of banks in transition: Evidence from 289 banks in 15 post-communist countries (135KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries and Anita Taci |
April 2004 |
Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002 (302KB - PDF)
by Franklin Steves and Alan Rousso |
November 2003 |
The 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey: Results from a survey of 6,100 firms (362KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries, Tatiana Lysenko and Saso Polanec |
November 2003 |
Transition and international integration in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (298KB - PDF)
by Ian Babetskii, Oxana Babetskaia-Kukharchuk and Martin Raiser |
November 2003 |
Trust in transition: cross-country and firm evidence (288KB - PDF)
by Martin Raiser, Alan Rousso and Franklin Steves |
October 2003 |
Stock markets and industry growth: an eastern European perspective (181KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
October 2003 |
Bridging the gaps? Private sector development, capital flows and the investment climate in south-eastern Europe (193KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti, Peter Sanfey and Anita Taci |
June 2003 |
Benchmarking structural change in transition
(1MB - PDF)by Martin Raiser, Mark Schaffer and Johannes Schuchhardt |
February 2003 |
Power sector regulatory reform in transition economies: Progress and lessons learned (260KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
February 2003 |
The investment climate for climate investment: Joint Implementation in transition countries
(201KB - PDF)by Samuel Fankhauser and Lucia Lavric |
January 2003 |
Bank performance in transition economies (375KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries, Damien Neven and Paul Seabright |
November 2002 |
Contracting in transition economy municipal projects (266KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
September 2002 |
What should the multilateral development banks do? (292KB - PDF)
by Willem Buiter and Steven Fries |
June 2002 |
Capital flight and capital outflows from Russia: symptom, cause and cure (194KB - PDF)
by Willem H. Buiter and Ivan Szegvari |
June 2002 |
The energy intensity of transition countries (313KB - PDF)
by Jan Cornillie and Samuel Fankhauser |
June 2002 |
Banking reform and development in transition economies (244KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries and Anita Taci |
June 2002 |
Ownership and corporate governance in Russian industry: a survey (98KB - PDF)
by Carsten Sprenger |
January 2002 |
Liberalisation of the Russian power sector (60KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
January 2002 |
Competition across transition economies: an enterprise-level analysis of the main policy and structural determinants (259KB - PDF)
by Maria Vagliasindi |
December 2001 |
Foreign direct investment financing of capital formation in central and eastern Europe
(256KB - PDF)by Libor Krkoska |
December 2001 |
Nature’s blessing or nature’s curse: the political economy of transition in resource-based economies (259KB - PDF)
by Akram Esanov, Martin Raiser and Willem Buiter |
November 2001 |
Labour market states, mobility and entrepreneurship in transition economies (62KB - PDF)
by Mark Dutz, Celine Kauffmann, Serineh Najarian, Peter Sanfey and Ruslan Yemtsov |
November 2001 |
Competition and enterprise performance in transition economies: evidence from a cross-country survey (374KB - PDF)
by Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright |
June 2001 |
Financial structures to promote private sector development in south-eastern Europe (315KB - PDF)
by Francesca Pissarides |
June 2001 |
Effective versus statutory taxation: measuring effective tax administration in transition economies
(281KB - PDF)by Mark E. Schaffer and Gerard Turley |
May 2001 |
The Measurements and Determinants of Institutional Change: Evidence from Transition Economies
(589KB - PDF)by Martin Raiser, Maria L. Di Tommaso and Melvyn Weeks |
February 2001 |
Social capital in transition: a first look at the evidence (112KB - PDF)
by Martin Raiser, Christian Haerpfer, Thomas Nowotny and Claire Wallace |
February 2001 |
Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria (84KB - PDF)
by Francesca Pissarides, Miroslav Singer and Jan Svejnar |
November 2000 |
Intervention, corruption and capture: the nexus between enterprises and the state (119KB - PDF)
by Joel Hellman and Mark Schankerman |
October 2000 |
An analytical framework for evaluating transition impact of infrastructure projects (43KB - PDF)
by Philippe Aghion & Mark Schankerman |
October 2000 |
Ten years after: what is special about transition countries? (84KB - PDF)
by Daniel Gros and Marc Suhrcke |
August 2000 |
Defying the odds: initial conditions, reforms and growth in the first decade of transition (64KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti, Martin Raiser and Peter Sanfey |
July 2000 |
Taxes, competition and finance for Albanian enterprises: evidence from a field study (76KB - PDF)
by Holger Muent, Francesca Pissarides and Peter Sanfey |
July 2000 |
Regulatory reform and market development in power sectors of transition economies: the case of Kazakhstan (83KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
June 2000 |
Assessing macroeconomic vulnerability in central Europe (93KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska |
June 2000 |
Measuring governance and state capture: the role of bureaucrats and firms in shaping the business environment
(696KB - PDF)by Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones, Daniel Kaufmann and Mark Schankerman |
June 2000 |
Barter and non-monetary transactions in transition economies: Evidence from a cross-country survey (62KB - PDF)
by Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabr |
June 2000 |
Patterns of legal change: shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies
(104KB - PDF)by Katharina Pistor |
May 2000 |
Law and finance in transition economies
(127KB - PDF)by Katharina Pistor, Martin Raiser and Stanislav Gelfer |
February 2000 |
