| Selected
Publications |
Wendy Carlin, Mark E. Schaffer and Paul Seabright,
"Where are the Real Bottlenecks? A Lagrangian Approach to Identifying Constraints on Growth from Subjective Survey Data",
CERT Discussion Paper 06/04, May 2006.
Tomislav Kovandzic, Mark E. Schaffer and Gary Kleck,
"Productivity, Ownership and the Investment Climate: International Lessons for Priorities in Serbia",
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5357, December 2005.
Itzhak Goldberg, Branko Radulovic and Mark E. Schaffer,
"Productivity, Ownership and the Investment Climate: International Lessons for Priorities in Serbia",
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3681
and CERT Discussion Paper 05/03, August 2005.
Wendy Carlin, Mark E. Schaffer and Paul Seabright,
"A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth",
Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy,
Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004 (Berkeley Electronic Press).
Previously CEPR Discussion Paper 4343, March 2004.
Christopher F. Baum, Mark E. Schaffer
and Steven Stillman,
"Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing",
Stata Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2003.
Working paper version: Boston College
Economics Working Paper 545, 2003.
Martin Raiser, Mark Schaffer and Johannes Schuchhardt,
"Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition",
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2004.
Previously
CEPR Discussion Paper 3820, March 2003,
IZA Discussion Paper 727, February 2003,
EBRD Working Paper 79, February 2003, and
CERT Discussion Paper 03/01, February 2003.
John P. Bonin and
Mark E. Schaffer, "Revisiting Hungary’s Bankruptcy Episode", in Anna Meyendorff
and Anjan V. Thakor (eds.), Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies:
Strategies for Reform in Central and Eastern Europe, MIT Press, 2002. CERT
working paper version.
Wendy Carlin, Steven
Fries, Mark E. Schaffer and Paul Seabright, "Competition and Enterprise
Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-country Survey".
CEPR
Discussion Paper 2840, May 2001.
Wendy Carlin, Saul
Estrin and Mark E. Schaffer, "Measuring Progress in Transition and Towards
EU Accession: A Comparison of Manufacturing Firms in Poland, Romania and
Spain", Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 38, No. 5, December
2000. CERT working
paper version.
Shumei Gao and Mark
E. Schaffer, "Financial Discipline in the Enterprise Sector in Transition
Countries: How Does China Compare?", in Juzhong Zhuang, Sarah Cook and
Shujie Yao (eds.), The Chinese Economy Under Transition, Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 2000. CERT
working paper version.
Peter J. Luke and
Mark E. Schaffer, "Wage Determination in Russia: An Econometric Investigation",
CERT
Discussion Paper 99/08, September 1999 and IZA
Discussion Paper No. 143, April 2000.
Robert I. Mochrie,
Mark E. Schaffer and Alan A. Bevan, "Bank and Enterprise Restructuring
in Transition Economies", UN Economic Commission for Europe Economic
Survey of Europe, No. 2, 1998.
Francesca Cornelli,
Richard Portes and Mark E. Schaffer, "The Capital Structure of Firms in
Central and Eastern Europe", in Olivier Bouin, Fabrizio Coricelli and Françoise
Lemoine (eds.), Different Paths to a Market Economy: China and European
Economies in Transition, CEPR/CEPII/OECD, 1998.
Mark E. Schaffer,
"Do Firms in Transition Countries have Soft Budget Constraints? A Reconsideration
of Concepts and Evidence", Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 26, No.
1, March 1998. CERT
working paper version.
Saul Estrin, Mark
E. Schaffer and I.J. Singh, "The Provision of Social Benefits in State-Owned,
Privatized and Private Firms in Poland", in Martin Rein, Barry Friedman
and Andreas Wörgötter (eds.), Enterprise and Social Benefits
after Communism, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Simon Commander,
Qimiao Fan and Mark E. Schaffer (eds.), Enterprise Restructuring and
Economic Policy in Russia, EDI/World Bank, 1996.
Jozef Konings, Hartmut
Lehmann and Mark E. Schaffer, "Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Transition
Economy: Ownership, Firm Size, and Gross Job Flows in Polish Manufacturing
1988-91", Labour Economics, Vol. 3, No. 3, October 1996. |