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supporting institutions such as property rights and rule of law. But how do these two aspects of the institutional environment …
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back on the enterprise sector, as the state can no longer support the institutions necessary for the effective functioning …
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The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
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do is not simply introducing open access institutions, but reorganizing the incentives of the elites so that to limit …
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institutions and the political economy of transition. Much discussion of the area is characterised by ambiguity and confusion, and … while there are many partial theories of institutions covering specific cases, we still lack an all encompassing theory. The … institutions important for transition are introduced next, this discussion helping to make clear the critical distinction between …
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Using a survey of new firms in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, I explore how an entrepreneur’s social networks affect the amount paid in bribes to government officials. Lower levels of bribe payments are associated with ownership by a former manager of a state-owned enterprise (SOE), with being...
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increasingly important role. Second, formal legal institutions have not made a critical contribution to China's remarkable economic …
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economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and measure various types of institutions based on a theoretical …
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The paper tries to improve our understanding on the role of institutions in development by critically examining the … current orthodox discourse on institutions and highlighting some of its key problems. After discussing some definitional …
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” (specific to contractual and free market institutions), on the one hand, and “imposed transaction costs” (according to formal …
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