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    Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina: a success and a failure of transition

    Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2004
    Although following similar objectives, the reforms aimed at transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the Central European countries yielded different outcomes in comparison to the countries in Eastern Europe.The paper presents a comparative analysis of two ex-socialist countries - Hungary as an example of a successful transition economy; and Bosnia and Herzegovina, whe
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    Fiscal consequences of monetary integration within the common economic area: the case of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia

    Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and the Economics Institute, Prague, 2005
    What is the importance of seigniorage (the face value of printed money less its cost) revenues in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia during 1997-2003? What are the possible ways to distribute seigniorage under a common currency area (CMA)?
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    Firms’ price markups and returns to scale in imperfect markets: Bulgaria and Hungary

    Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
    What is the effect of the returns to scale on firms’ price markup for Bulgarian and Hungarian manufacturing firms?The authors develop and test a methodology that allows the empirical examination and comparative anaylysis of the pricing behavior of manufacturing firms in the two countries, in the context of imperfect markets.The paper shows that firms’ markups tend to be directly associated w
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    Exchange rates in the new EU accession countries: what have we learned from the forerunners

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2004
    How can real exchange rates be estimated? What are the reasons for the real exchange rate appreciation?The paper develops a theoretical model of real exchange rate determination, and simulates it on a sample of three “forerunners” and four new accession countries.
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    Identification and measurement of relationships concerning inflow of FDI: the case of the Czech Republic

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2004
    What are the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the case of the Czech economy? What is their implication for the decision-making process within the Czech National Bank?
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    China’s emergence in the global economy and Brazil

    Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of China’s expanded role in the world economy on trade and investment flows to and from Brazil. It also looks at the challenges emerging for the Brazilian private and public sectors, and the policies and initiatives being taken to meet those challenges.
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    The evolution and upgrading of Indonesia’s industry

    Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004
    This paper describes Indonesia’s rapid economic development during the past three decades, focusing on changes in economic structure, trade patterns and policy.
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    Macroeconomic policies, the environment, natural resources and welfare in developing countries

    Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004
    The paper reviews the literature on the relationships between macroeconomic policies and the environment, natural resources and population welfare in developing countries on the other. It focuses on issues of: taxes and subsidies, such as those affecting sectors that extract natural resources or strongly influence the environment, and the environmental and resource/welfare effects of t
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    Strategic intellectual property rights policy and north-south technology transfer

    Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 2005
    This paper joins the debate on whether weak or strong protection for intellectual property in developing countries better promotes development. It gives an analysis of the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) within the framework of the WTO TRIPS agreement.
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    How does China’s growth affect poverty reduction in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2004
    This study assesses China’s growth on the world economy and its implications of this for poverty reduction in other developing countries and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The growth of China has implications for other countries through its impact on their exports to China itself (positive) and to third countries (negative), and through their imports from China.

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