This study presents an empirical analysis of individual expressions of confidence in the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) using the World Values Survey-Wave 7 data. The main hypothesis tested is that confidence in each institution is positively associated with alignment...

Tests for the presence of Leviathan, evidenced by a positive relationship between the size of government measured as a percentage of GDP, and the degree of fiscal centralization, have provided mixed results. We derive alternative measures of the size of government taking into account household...

This paper examines how people in transition countries coped with the impacts of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009. The data indicate that households in these countries were hit harder than those in other regions of the world. We consider how transition country households...