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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| Title |
Publication date |
Management quality, firm performance and market pressure in Russia (183KB - PDF)
by Guido Friebel and Helena Schweiger |
May 12 |
Foreign banks and the Vienna Initiative: turning sinners into saints (306KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Elena Loukoianova, Alexander Pivovarsky |
March 12 |
International shock transmission after the Lehman Brothers collapse – evidence from syndicated lending (154KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen |
March 12 |
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 12 |
Learning, political attitudes and the crisis in transition countries (336KB - PDF)
by Pauline Grosjean, Frantisek Ricka and Claudia Senik |
January 12 |
Dictating the risk – experimental evidence on giving in risky environments (337KB - PDF)
by J. Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Erkut Y. Ozbay |
January 12 |
Managing Mongolia's resource boom (162KB - PDF)
by Asel Isakova, Alexander Plekhanov and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
January 12 |
Forecasting growth in eastern Europe and central Asia (296KB - PDF)
by Franziska Ohnsorge and Yevgeniya Korniyenko |
December 11 |
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 11 |
Multinational banks and the global financial crisis: weathering the perfect storm? (801KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas and Iman Van Lelyveld |
December 11 |
Labour markets and representative institutions: evidence from colonial British America
(707KB - PDF)by Elena Nikolova |
October 11 |
What makes growth sustained? (389KB - PDF)
by Andrew Berg, Jonathan D. Ostry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
October 11 |
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 11 |
The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries (553KB - PDF)
by Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger and John Van Reenen |
June 11 |
Employment concentration and resource allocation: one-company towns in Russia (234KB - PDF)
by Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Alexander Plekhanov |
June 11 |
Performance of domestic and cross-border acquisitions: empirical evidence from Russian acquirers (158KB - PDF)
by Olivier Bertrand and Marie-Ann Betschinger |
June 11 |
Unequal effects of liberalisation on diversification of Russia’s regions (205KB - PDF)
by Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya |
June 11 |
The impact of state aid for restructuring on the allocation of resources (622KB - PDF)
by Helena Schweiger |
May 11 |
Economic transition, firm organisation and internal control: determinants of audit structure in Russian firms (395KB - PDF)
by Ichiro Iwasaki |
May 11 |
Region-specific constraints to doing business: evidence from Russia (185KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov and Asel Isakova |
Mar 11 |
Running for the exit: international banks and crisis transmission (301KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas & Neeltje Van Horen |
Feb 11 |
Financial integration and growth - Is emerging Europe different? (1MB - PDF)
by Christian Friedrich & Isabel Schnabel & Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
Dec 10 |
Foreign currency lending in emerging Europe: bank-level evidence (205KB - PDF)
by Martin Brown & Ralph De Haas |
Dec 10 |
Institutions and economic performance: What can be explained? (461KB - PDF)
by Simon Commander & Zlatko Nikoloski |
Dec 10 |
Euroisation in Serbia (205KB - PDF)
by Alexandre Chailloux & Franziska Ohnsorge & David Vavra |
Nov 10 |
Microeconomic implications of credit booms: evidence from emerging Europe (360KB - PDF)
by Fabrizio Coricelli & Nigel Driffield & Sarmistha Pal & Isabelle Roland |
Oct 10 |
Fostering growth in CEE countries: a country-tailored approach to growth policy
(259KB - PDF)by Philippe Aghion & Heike Harmgart & Natalia Weisshaar |
Oct 10 |
The crisis as a wake-up call: do banks tighten screening and monitoring during a financial crisis? (210KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas & Neeltje van Horen |
Aug 10 |
Cross country differences in job reallocation: the
role of industry, firm size and regulations (515KB - PDF)
by John Haltiwanger & Stefano Scarpetta & Helena Schweiger |
July 10 |
Addressing private sector currency mismatches in emerging Europe (291KB - PDF)
by Jeromin Zettelmeyer & Piroska M. Nagy & Stephen Jeffrey |
Jun 10 |
Earnings inequality and the informal economy: evidence from Serbia (243KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfey & Gorana Krstic |
Mar 10 |
South-eastern Europe: lessons from the global economic crisis (113KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfrey |
Feb 10 |
In the wake of the crisis: dealing with distressed debt across the transition region (79KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas & Stephan Knobloch |
Feb 10 |
Fiscal decentralisation and the quality of public services in Russian regions (189KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov & Lev Freinkman |
Feb 10 |
Monitoring managers: does it matter? (249KB - PDF)
by Francesca Cornelli & Zbigniew Kominek & Alexander Ljungqvist |
Jan 10 |
Understanding the crisis in emerging Europe
(247KB - PDF)Erik Berglöf, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Alexander Plekhanov
& Jeromin Zettelmeyer |
Dec 09 |
Development based on commodity revenues (234KB - PDF)
by Alexander Plekhanov & Sergei Guriev & Konstantin Sonin |
Dec 09 |
Chinese investment in the transition countries (144KB - PDF)
by Yevgeniya Korniyenko & Toshiaki Sakatsume |
Feb 09 |
The determinants of performance in building infrastructure in transition economies (220KB - PDF)
by Gabriela Dobrescu & Guido Friebel & Pauline Grosjean & Katrin Robeck |
Jun 08 |
Internal capital markets and lending by multinational bank subsidiaries (434KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas & Iman Van Lelyveld |
Feb 08 |
What determines banks’ customer choice? Evidence from transition countries (278KB - PDF)
by Ralph De Haas & Daniel Ferreira & Anita Taci |
Nov 07 |
Should market liberalisation precede democracy? Causal relations between political preferences and development (241KB - PDF)
by Pauline Grosjean & Claudia Senik |
Aug 07 |
Business environment and enterprise behaviour in East Germany compared to West Germany and central Europe (289KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska & Katrin Robeck |
Jun 07 |
Mobility, poverty and well-being among the informally employed in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(510KB - PDF)by Gorana Krstic & Peter Sanfey |
Jan 07 |
Does enterprise-level training compensate for poor country-level skills? (315KB - PDF)
by Joe Colombano & Libor Krkoska |
Dec 06 |
Ageing, pension reforms and capital market development in transition countries (327KB - PDF)
by Christiane Nickel & Johan Almenberg |
Dec 06 |
Forecasting inflation for transition countries: How accurate are the EBRD forecasts? (252KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska & Utku Teksoz |
Sep 06 |
The impact of crime on the enterprise sector: Transition versus non-transition countries (369KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska & Katrin Robeck |
Jul 06 |
Regulatory induced herding? Evidence from Polish pension funds (187KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
Jun 06 |
Beyond borders: Reconsidering regional trade in Central Asia (296KB - PDF)
by Clemens Grafe & Martin Raiser & Toshiaki Sakatsume |
Mar 06 |
Accuracy of growth forecasts for transition countries: Assessing ten years of EBRD forecasting (136KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska & Utku Teksoz |
Dec 05 |
Filling the gap in urban transport: Private sector participation in transition countries (127KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
Dec 05 |
Can poor consumers pay for energy and water? (196KB - PDF)
by Samuel Fankhauser & Sladjana Tepic |
Aug 05 |
Does transition make you happy? (207KB - PDF)
by Peter Sanfey & Utku Teksoz |
Jun 05 |
Reforms and growth in transition: re-examining the evidence (231KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti & Tatiana Lysenko & Peter Sanfey |
Jun 05 |
European financial integration and the financing of local businesses in the new EU member states (360KB - PDF)
by Ulrich Volz |
Oct 04 |
Inflation, exchange rates and the role of monetary policy in Albania (129KB - PDF)
by Marta Muço & Peter Sanfey |
Sep 04 |
The dynamic adjustment towards target capital structures of firms in transition economies (232KB - PDF)
by Ralph de Haas & Marga Peeters |
Jul 04 |
Cost efficiency of banks in transition: Evidence from 289 banks in 15 post-communist countries (135KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries & Anita Taci |
Apr 04 |
Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002 (302KB - PDF)
by Franklin Steves & Alan Rousso |
Nov 03 |
The 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey: Results from a survey of 6,100 firms (362KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries & Tatiana Lysenko & Saso Polanec |
Nov 03 |
Transition and international integration in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (298KB - PDF)
by Ian Babetskii & Oxana Babetskaia-Kukharchuk & Martin Raiser |
Nov 03 |
Trust in transition: cross-country and firm evidence (288KB - PDF)
by Martin Raiser & Alan Rousso & Franklin Steves |
Oct 03 |
Stock markets and industry growth: an eastern European perspective (181KB - PDF)
by Zbigniew Kominek |
Oct 03 |
Bridging the gaps? Private sector development, capital flows and the investment climate in south-eastern Europe (193KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti & Peter Sanfey & Anita Taci |
Jun 03 |
Benchmarking structural change in transition
(1MB - PDF)by Martin Raiser & Mark Schaffer & Johannes Schuchhardt |
Feb 03 |
Power sector regulatory reform in transition economies: Progress and lessons learned (260KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
Feb 03 |
The investment climate for climate investment: Joint Implementation in transition countries
(201KB - PDF)by Samuel Fankhauser & Lucia Lavric |
Jan 03 |
Bank performance in transition economies (375KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries & Damien Neven & Paul Seabright |
Nov 02 |
Contracting in transition economy municipal projects (266KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
Sep 02 |
What should the multilateral development banks do? (292KB - PDF)
by Willem Buiter & Steven Fries |
Jun 02 |
Capital flight and capital outflows from Russia: symptom, cause and cure (194KB - PDF)
by Willem H. Buiter & Ivan Szegvari |
Jun 02 |
The energy intensity of transition countries (313KB - PDF)
by Jan Cornillie & Samuel Fankhauser |
Jun 02 |
Banking reform and development in transition economies (244KB - PDF)
by Steven Fries & Anita Taci |
Jun 02 |
Ownership and corporate governance in Russian industry: a survey (98KB - PDF)
by Carsten Sprenger |
Jan 02 |
Liberalisation of the Russian power sector (60KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
Jan 02 |
Competition across transition economies: an enterprise-level analysis of the main policy and structural determinants (259KB - PDF)
by Maria Vagliasindi |
Dec 01 |
Foreign direct investment financing of capital formation in central and eastern Europe
(256KB - PDF)by Libor Krkoska |
Dec 01 |
Nature’s blessing or nature’s curse: the political economy of transition in resource-based economies (259KB - PDF)
by Akram Esanov & Martin Raiser & Willem Buiter |
Nov 01 |
Labour market states, mobility and entrepreneurship in transition economies (62KB - PDF)
by Mark Dutz & Celine Kauffmann & Serineh Najarian & Peter Sanfey & Ruslan Yemtsov |
Nov 01 |
Competition and enterprise performance in transition economies: evidence from a cross-country survey (374KB - PDF)
by Wendy Carlin & Steven Fries & Mark Schaffer & Paul Seabright |
Jun 01 |
Financial structures to promote private sector development in south-eastern Europe (315KB - PDF)
by Francesca Pissarides |
Jun 01 |
Effective versus statutory taxation: measuring effective tax administration in transition economies
(281KB - PDF)by Mark E. Schaffer & Gerard Turley |
May 01 |
The Measurements and Determinants of Institutional Change: Evidence from Transition Economies
(589KB - PDF)by Martin Raiser & Maria L. Di Tommaso & Melvyn Weeks |
Feb 01 |
Social capital in transition: a first look at the evidence (112KB - PDF)
by Martin Raiser & Christian Haerpfer & Thomas Nowotny & Claire Wallace |
Feb 01 |
Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria (84KB - PDF)
by Francesca Pissarides & Miroslav Singer & Jan Svejnar |
Nov 00 |
Intervention, corruption and capture: the nexus between enterprises and the state (119KB - PDF)
by Joel Hellman & Mark Schankerman |
Oct 00 |
An analytical framework for evaluating transition impact of infrastructure projects (43KB - PDF)
by Philippe Aghion & Mark Schankerman |
Oct 00 |
Ten years after: what is special about transition countries? (84KB - PDF)
by Daniel Gros & Marc Suhrcke |
Aug 00 |
Defying the odds: initial conditions, reforms and growth in the first decade of transition (64KB - PDF)
by Elisabetta Falcetti & Martin Raiser & Peter Sanfey |
Jun 00 |
Taxes, competition and finance for Albanian enterprises: evidence from a field study (76KB - PDF)
by Holger Muent & Francesca Pissarides & Peter Sanfey |
Jun 00 |
Regulatory reform and market development in power sectors of transition economies: the case of Kazakhstan (83KB - PDF)
by David Kennedy |
Jun 00 |
Assessing macroeconomic vulnerability in central Europe (93KB - PDF)
by Libor Krkoska |
Jun 00 |
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 & Mark Schankerman |
Jun 00 |
Barter and non-monetary transactions in transition economies: Evidence from a cross-country survey (62KB - PDF)
by Wendy Carlin & Steven Fries & Mark Schaffer & Paul Seabr |
Jun 00 |
Patterns of legal change: shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies
(104KB - PDF)by Katharina Pistor |
May 00 |
Law and finance in transition economies
(127KB - PDF)by Katharina Pistor & Martin Raiser & Stanislav Gelfer |
Feb 00 |
