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 …

change over the course of transition? We analyse these issues using data from a sequence of 11 opinion surveys conducted in … employment status, income and unemployment, only affect political preferences in the later stages of the transition. This is … consistent with the predictions of the theoretical literature on political constraints during transition – as the uncertainty …

We develop a simple model to analyse the ‘dual-track’ approach to transition to a market economy as a mechanism for …

We survey the empirical literature analysing the process of enterprise restructuring in transition economies. The …

labour market frictions on the process of transition. We endogenize the economic and budgetary costs of different government … policies and show that, early in transition, governments ought to subsidize state firms. Provided that inter … transition, and increases welfare. Moreover, by resorting to indirect — instead of direct — taxes, governments can bring the path …

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

This paper proposes an explanation of the puzzling coexistence of elements of inertia and dynamism on the Russian …

The behaviour of an oligopolistic industry in a transition economy is analysed, assuming that the firms are labour …

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. …