This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective corporate governance and to harden enterprise budget constraints. How do these policies interact; Are they substitute policy instruments or does one policy reinforce the effect of...

This paper introduces conformal inference, a powerful and flexible framework for constructing prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage in finite samples. Unlike conventional methods, conformal inference makes no assumptions about the underlying data distribution other than exchangeability....