Documents et rapports
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Organizational Resources, Country Institutions, and National Culture behind Firm Survival and Growth during COVID-19 (anglais)
This paper provides one of the first comprehensive and most updated studies on the effects of firms’ organizational resources, country institutions, and national culture on the survival and growth of private...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9633 Date du document: 15 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yu,Peng,Mike W.,Wei,Zuobao,Xu,Jian,Xu,Lixin
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Are Banks Engines of Export ? Financial Structures and Export Dynamics (anglais)
This paper studies the impact of financial structures on the dynamics of the export sector using rich data from over 60 countries. The results reveal that bank-oriented financial systems boost the size...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8621 Date du document: 25 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Minetti,Raoul,Mulabdic,Alen,Ruta,Michele,Zhu,Susan
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Liquidity constraints and firms linkages with multinationals (anglais)
Using a unique data set on the Czech Republic for 1994-2003, this article examines the relationship between a firm's liquidity constraints and its supply linkages with multinational corporations (MNCs)...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77621 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Javorcik,Beata,Spatareanu,Mariana
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Explaining large inventories : the case of Iran (anglais)
According to the national accounts of Iran, during the period of 1988-2003 the annual change in inventories in this economy was highly variable and averaged 7.3 percent of GDP if calculated at current...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 37849 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dobronogov,Anton,Jalali-Naini, Ahmad R.
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Infrastructure and public utilities privatization in developing countries (anglais)
The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3950 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Auriol,Emmanuelle,Picard, Pierre M.
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Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America (anglais)
The author analyzes decentralization reforms in the education sector in Latin America (their status, impact, and ongoing challenges) by making use of the accountability framework developed by the World...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3453 Date du document: 1 novembre 2004 Auteur: Di Gropello, Emmanuela
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Farm debt in the CIS - a multi-country study of the major causes and proposed solutions (anglais)
The objective of this study is to support the farm privatization and restructuring process in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by presenting a wide range of strategic and tactical options that...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP424 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Csaki, Csaba,Lerman, Zvi,Sotnikov, Sergey
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Does financial liberalization relax financing constraints on firms ? (anglais)
The author uses panel data on 394 firms in 13 developing countries for the years 1988-98 to learn whether financial liberalization relaxes financing constraints on firms. He finds that liberalization affects...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2467 Date du document: 31 octobre 2000 Auteur: Laeven,Luc A.
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Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies - the case of Bulgaria (anglais)
The authors use firm level data on Bulgaria to investigate the impact of liquidity constraints on firms' investment performance. Internal funds are a important determinant of investment in most industrial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2278 Date du document: 31 janvier 2000 Auteur: Budina, Nina,Garretsen, Harry,de Jong, Elke
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Externalities and bailouts : hard and soft budget constraints in intergovernmental fiscal relations (anglais)
Subnational governments are assuming greater fiscal responsibility in many developing and transition countries. There is concern, however, that fiscal decentralization may weaken fiscal discipline -that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1843 Date du document: 30 novembre 1997 Auteur: Wildasin,David E.
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Why is unemployment low in the former Soviet Union? : enterprises restructuring and the structure of compensation (anglais)
The authors explain why in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) - especially Russia - unemployment has remained low and employment in state and privatized firms has remained high, while at the same time the informal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1617 Date du document: 30 juin 1996 Auteur: Commander, Simon,Tolstopiatenko, Andrei
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Fundamental issues and policy approaches in industrial restructuring (anglais)
The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that allows a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the industrial restructuring problem. The paper utilizes this conceptual framework to...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 11008 Date du document: 30 avril 1992 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Atiyas, Izak,Dutz, Mark,Frischtak, Claudio,Hadji
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Tightening the soft budget constraint in reforming socialist economies (anglais)
The concept of the soft budget constraint has been quoted as appearing "when the strict relationship between expenditures and earnings has been relaxed, because excess expenditure over earnings will be...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 8987 Date du document: 31 mai 1990 Auteur: Nagaoka,Sadao,Atiyas,Izak