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Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004555
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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?
Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150624
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762354
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822632
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754119
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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959672
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The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005
Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761970
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763656
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703447
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761954