This book brings together ten original studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the newly independent states created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

This book brings together ten original studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the newly independent states created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Existing approaches to the meta-frontier estimation are largely based on the linear programming technique, which does not hinge on any statistical underpinnings. We suggest estimating meta-frontiers by constrained maximum likelihood subject to the constraints that specify the way in which the...

While ethnic diversity has been shown to produce numerous negative effects on the economic performance due to disagreement on the production of the public good, nepotism in making employment decisions, increased corruption and rent-seeking behaviour, its positive effects appear to have received...

type="main" xml:id="ajar12026-abs-0001" <p>Existing approaches to the meta-frontier estimation consist of two stages where the estimates of the local frontier parameters obtained in the first step are used to estimate meta-frontier parameters by means of a linear or quadratic minimisation procedure...</p>