Academic research by the Centre for Economic Reform & Transformation

The Centre for Economic Reform & Transformation (CERT) is currently undertaking research in the following areas:

• Have market reforms made Russia's managerial labour market more productive?
• Inside the black box: the Russian firm and internal labour markets in economic transition
• Employment reallocation and productivity growth: studies of four post-socialist economies
• The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS): a basis for analyzing the Ukrainian labor market
• analysis of labour market adjustment in Poland and Estonia with large micro data sets
• Hard budget constraints and enterprise restructuring in Romania
• Moscow bureau of economic analysis project
• Labour market adjustment in Estonia: microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects
• Job creation, job destruction and labour turnover in regional labour market types in the Russian federation
• Financial flows and debt structures in transition and market economies: Bulgaria, Hungary and the United Kingdom
• The competitiveness of firms in central and eastern Europe and western Europe compared: a study of manufacturing firms in Poland, Romania and Spain
• Industrial policy and restructuring in transforming economies
• Moldovan economic trends
• Firms, banks and financial distress in central and eastern Europe
• Debt crisis in Russia and Kazakhstan
• Enterprise and bank restructuring in central and eastern Europe
• Industrial investments in transition
• Integrating Hungary and Romania into the European economy: policy analysis using input-output and general equilibrium models
• Study of higher education: structure and financing in Russia, Ukraine and the eke
• The political economy of new states in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
• Russian foreign trade
• Romania: rural financial market development for the small private farm sector
• Understanding enterprises in transition by linking case studies to the microeconomic analysis of organisations and the macroeconomic conditions of transition