Soviet subsidization of trade with Eastern Europe The primacy of economics over politics

SIGLEBibliothek Weltwirtschaft Kiel C131,053 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Harvest failures in Eastern Europe. Planners' responses and their implications for world grain markets

SIGLEBibliothek Weltwirtschaft Kiel C 132,887 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Inter-regional and inter-organizational differences in agricultural efficiency in Czechoslovakia

SIGLEBibliothek Weltwirtschaft Kiel C131,258 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

With a little help from our friends: The effect of usaid assistance on sme growth in a transition economy

Using survey data on Macedonian firms that participated in USAID programs providing technical and financial assistance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on firms that did not, we estimate the effectiveness of such assistance in increasing the growth of employment in the assisted firms. We control for selection bias in program participation and use both kernel and caliper propensity score matching to estimate the excess growth of employment in assisted firms. We find that assistance programs raised employment growth by 16-20 percentage points in the first year after assistance and by 26-30 points by the third year. © 2011 Association for Comparative Economic Studies

Firm size, age and efficiency: Evidence from Kenyan manufacturing firms

Translog stochastic frontier production functions are estimated using an unbalanced panel of 235 Kenyan manufacturing firms in the food, wood, textile and metal sectors. The sectors are estimated individually in order to investigate whether technical efficiency is systematically related to the size and age of firms. The evidence suggests that firm size has a positive and significant effect in the wood and textile sectors. The age effect is less systematic, but is insignificant in all sectors, except textiles.

THE BILATERAL J-CURVE: AUSTRALIA VERSUS HER 23 TRADING PARTNERS

Several studies have tested the J-curve phenomenon for Australia using non-stationary aggregate trade data and have provided mixed results. They not only suffer from the 'aggregation bias problem' but also from the 'spurious regression problem'. To overcome these problems, in this paper we investigate the short-run and the long-run effects of real depreciation of the Australian dollar on the trade balance between Australia and each of her 23 trading partners using quarterly data over the 1973-2001 period and recent advances in cointegration analysis. The results from the bound testing approach for cointegration and error-correction modeling does not provide much support for the J-curve phenomenon. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/ University of Adelaide and Flinders University 2005..