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Social capability, history and the economies of Communist and post-Communist states

Iliev, Peter; Putterman, Louis - 2005

transition to a market economy. Our findings are generally affirmative, with an interesting pattern for the Eurasian socialist … fractionalization, which is correlated with late pre-modern development, shows harmful effects in the transition era but not under …

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Reform redux: measurement, determinants and reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...

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Transition fatigue? Cross-country evidence from micro data

Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2009

The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …

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Emerging economic systems in Central and Eastern Europe – a qualitative and quantitative assessment

Buchen, Clemens - 2010

In a first step, more generally, the concept of institutional arbitrage within the comparative capitalism literature is put to a test: as a result of comparative institutional advantages due to different investment incentives provided by types of institutions, companies relocate activities to...

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The Effect of Inflation on Growth - Evidence from a Panel of Transition Countries

Gillman, Max; Harris, Mark N. - 2009

The paper examines the effect of inflation on growth in transition countries. It presents panel data evidence for 13 … transition countries over the 1990-2003 period; it uses a fixed effects panel approach to account for possible bias from …

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Privatisation Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James; Urga, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition … transition and recession was over. Our analysis suggests that an advantage of mass privatisation was that it led spontaneously to …

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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World

Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States during 1995-2008, utilising a unique dataset and employing the System Generalised Method of Moments technique. Our findings suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship,...

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How i learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers: A gravity model approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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The effect of inflation on growth: Evidence from a panel of transition countries

Gillman, Max; Harris, Mark N. - 2008

The paper examines the effect of inflation on growth in transition countries. It presents panel data evidence for 13 … transition countries over the 1990-2003 period; it uses a fixed effects, full-information maximum likelihood, panel approach to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288837