935 research outputs found
Replication Data for: Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprises
No full textReplication Data for: Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprise
Replication Data for: Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprises
No full textReplication Data for: Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprise
Oral History Interview: Leonard Berkowitz (0232)
No full textNew York City, NY; Dr. Daniel Katz; the role of chance in success; University of Wisconsin-Madison; empirical versus theoretical psychology; aggression studies; Harry Harlow; psychology department; department reputation; Carl Rogers; Wilfred 'Wulf' Brogden; Mavis Hetherington; James Archer; primate laboratory; the 1960s; student unrest; undergraduate advising; Vietnam War; chairmanship; University of Michigan; Vilas Research Professorshi
Measurements and Models of Reactive Transport in Geological Media
No full textAuthor Brian Berkowitz answers questions about his recently published article and the scientific and societal implications of his findings.</jats:p
The Evolution of Market Integration in Russia
No full textWe use a statistical model of commodity trade to measure the extent of integration between regional commodity markets within Russia. Monthly time-series data on regional commodity prices spanning 1994 through 1999 indicate substantial temporal fluctuations in integration over this period: an initial period of widespread integration gradually gave way to a period of disconnectedness in 1995 through 1997, which seems to have subsided by mid-1998. These temporal fluctuations exhibit strong statistical relationships with a host of aggregate variables; most notably, internal integration exhibits a strong negative relationship with international trade.internal borders, temporal fluctuations
Daniel Berkowitz & Karen B. Clay. The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States.
No full textThe Evolution of a Nation provides its readers a welcome alternative to explain striking differences in per capita income between the countries around the world, suggesting the factors that disparities are partly driven by political and legal institutions and the geography of a nation. The authors Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay are economists of University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University respectively; hence their main concern revolves around the societies’ prosperity and pove..
Of Legal Transplants, Legal Irritants, and Economic Development
No full textThe collapse of the socialist system has given way to unprecedented economic and legal reforms in the former socialist countries. Over the past decade they have enacted new legislation in all areas of the law, drawing heavily on legal models from developed market economies, including common law and civil law countries. While the transplanted laws now on the books is largely consistent with Western practice, the enforcement of these new laws is often ineffective (Berkowitz, Pistor, and Richard, 2003)
Entrepreneurship and Post-Socialist Growth
No full textA growing body of national-level survey evidence indicates that small-scale entrepreneurial activity has been an important engine of growth in post-socialist economies. Here we use a rich regional data set to obtain a statistical characterization of the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and economic growth within post-Soviet Russia. Russia is a useful laboratory for evaluating links between entrepreneurial activity and growth because of the striking variation in initial conditions, the adoption of policy reforms, and entrepreneurial activity observed across its large number of regions in the early stages of transition. Russia has also experienced striking regional variation in subsequent growth. Conditional on variations in initial conditions and policy reform measures, we find that regional entrepreneurial activity exhibits a strong and enduring relationship with subsequent growth.economic transition; small legal enterprises
Institutional Change and Product Composition: Does the Initial Quality of Institutions Matter?
No full textWe argue that the quality of institutions that enforce contracts and protect property rights influences the costs of producing high-value added (complex) versus low-value added (simple) products. Since data is hardly available for domestic transactions, we generate predictions about the relationship between the quality of institutions and product composition with an international trade model and use a rich international trade data set for empirical tests. We find that improvements in institutional quality increase the share and volume of a country's complex product exports. However, the initial quality of institutions is important, since in countries with the least developed institutions, the share of complex products in exports is generally small and, institutional reform has almost no influence on simple product exports. These findings cast doubts on the efficacy of institutional reform in countries with underdeveloped institutions.Complex and simple products, volume effect of institutions, compositional effect of institutions
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