Gerhard Pohl

NBER, MIT, University of Maryland, and the AEA Meetings. The authors owe special thanks to Ajay Chhibber, (2007)

Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, Angus Deaton, Paul Duane, Eduardo Engel, Stanley Fischer, ...

Using economic rates of return from World Bank-funded investments, we investigate how country characteristics and policies that influence aggregate performance affect investment productivity....

Präventionsberatung : als Instrument lebensweltorientierter Kooperation in pädagogischen Institutionen / (1999)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Osnabrück, Universiẗat, Diss., 1999.

Restructuring of Large Firms in Slovakia (1997)

Djankov, Simeon, Pohl, Gerhard

This paper examines case study evidence of large Slovak firms chosen to represent a wide range of initial conditions, privatization techniques and success with restructuring. We document the...

Determinants of Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Seven European Transition Economies (1997)

Claessens, Stijn, Djankov, Simeon, Pohl, Gerhard

We document the operational performance of (former and current) state enterprises over the 1992-1995 period for seven countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary,...

IS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION BAD NEWS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?: A Comment on Hughes Hallett (1994)

Pohl, Gerhard, Sorsa, Piritta

Project Evaluation and Uncertainty in Practice: A Statistical Analysis of Rate-of-Return Divergences of 1,015 World Bank Projects (1992)

Pohl, Gerhard, Mihaljek, Dubravko

This article analyzes the World Bank's experience with project evaluation for a sample of 1,015 projects by comparing estimated rates of return at appraisal with reestimated rates of return when...

Costs and benefits of residential energy use and conservation in the United States : a public policy perspective / (1981)

Pohl, Gerhard.

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Costs and benefits of residential energy use and conservation in the United States [microform] : a public policy perspective / (1981)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1981.

Über die direkte Umwandlung von chemischer Energie in mechanische Arbeit mit Hilfe von Polyelektrolytgelen. (1965)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Diss. Naturwiss. Basel, 1965 (KA).

Über die direkte Umwandlung von chemischer Energie in mechanische Arbeit mit Hilfe von Polyelektrolytgelen. (1965)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Diss. Naturwiss. Basel, 1965 (KA).

Zur Frage der vollständigen Beschreibung des linearen mechanischen Relaxationsverhaltens Polymerer durch Messung mehrerer mechanischer Kenngrössen. (1963)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Leipzig, Math.-naturwiss. F., Diss. v. 1. Okt. 1963 (Nicht f. d. Aust.).

Reaktionen von Carbeniumionen mit aliphatischen Aziden. (1962)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Leuna-Merseburg, T. H. f. Chemie, F. f. Stoffwirtsch., Diss. v. 24. Sept. 1962 (Nicht f. d. Aust.).

Die Zunahme des Volvulus und der freien und incarcerierten Hernien im Zusammenhang mit allgemeiner Abmagerung des Körpers. (1948)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Frankfurt, Med. F., Diss. v. 23. März 1948 (Nicht f. d. Austausch).

Untersuchungen über die Wirkung des künstlichen Braunsteins im Leclanché-Element. (1926)

Pohl, Gerhard.

[Lag nicht vor]. - [Auszug nicht gedruckt]

Der Strophenbau im deutschen Volkslied. T. 1, T. 2 [section symbol] 11-21. (1920)

Pohl, Gerhard.

Vollst. ersch. in: Palaestra, 136.

Banks, capital markets, and corporate governance : lessons from Russia for Eastern Europe

Pohl, Gerhard, Claessens, Stijn

The financial sector should be active in enterprise restructuring in the transitional economies, and should help channel resources to the private sector. What will best help the sector achieve these...

Enterprise restructuring in Eastern Europe : how much? how fast? where? - preliminary evidence from trade data

Hoekman, Bernard, Pohl, Gerhard

What kind of privatization program is best suited to stimulate enterprise restructuring in former centrally planned economies? One view, expressed by most Western business and political leaders, is...

Ownership and corporate governance : evidence from the Czech Republic

Claessens, Stijn, Djankov, Simeon, Pohl, Gerhard

The Czech Republic's mass-privatization scheme changed the governance of many firms in a short time. The authors show that mass privatization was effective in improving firm management because of the...

Restructuring of Large Firms in Slovakia

Simeon Djankov, Gerhard Pohl

This paper examines case study evidence of large Slovak firms chosen to represent a wide range of initial conditions, privatization techniques and success with restructuring. We document the...

Determinants of Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Seven European Transition Economies

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, Gerhard Pohl

We document the operational performance of (former and current) state enterprises over the 1992-1995 period for seven countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary,...

The restructuring of large firms in Slovakia

Djankov, Simeon, Pohl, Gerhard

The restructuring of large enterprises has received much attention in the transition of centrally planned economies to market economies. The need to transform these enterprises into viable firms is...

Uncertainty and the discrepancy between rate of return estimates at project appraisal and project completion

Pohl, Gerhard, Mihaljek, Dubravko

This report analyzes the World Bank's experience with project analysis from a sample of 1,105 projects. The authors compare estimated rates of return at appraisal with re-estimated rates of return at...

Going to market : privatization in Central and Eastern Market Europe

Hinds, Manuel, Pohl, Gerhard

The ultimate objective of economic reforms in Central and Eastern Europe is the creation of flexible and efficient market economies. Attaining this objective requires comprehensive action on at least...

Economic consequences of German reunification : 12 months after the big bang

Pohl, Gerhard

The author discusses how East Germany is faring 12 months after the big bang unification with West Germany. The experience with the German unification to date raises the question whether there would...

China's foreign trade reform : , New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 215 pp., index, $49.50

Pohl, Gerhard

Project Evaluation and Uncertainty in Practice: A Statistical Analysis of Rate-of-Return Divergences of 1,015 World Bank Projects.

Pohl, Gerhard, Mihaljek, Dubravko

This article analyzes the World Bank's experience with project evaluation for a sample of l,015 projects by comparing estimated rates of return at appraisal with reestimated rates of return when...

Is European Integration Bad News for Developing Countries?

Pohl, Gerhard, Sorsa, Piritta

The restructuring of large firms in the Slovak Republic

Simeon Djankov, Gerhard Pohl

This paper examines case study evidence of large Slovak firms chosen to represent a wide range of initial conditions, privatization techniques and success with restructuring. We document the...