Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non-transition … macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition which disproportionately affected …

East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became … well as local capacities. Third, the Kohl government's policy towards East German transition, driven by short …

China’s reform worked and produced some of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … developing and transition economy that has great growth potential, it is not enough to study the conventional ‘best … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China’s reform is a serial …

We argue that econometric analyses based on transition countries’ data can be vulnerable to structural breaks across …-oriented reforms. We find robust evidence that the pattern of growth in transition has changed at least two times, yielding thus three …

property. Economic hardships during transition increase support for revising privatization due to the perceived unfairness of … privatization, but does affect how economic hardships during transition shape these attitudes. …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …