, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …

review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for …

conditions, external factors, and reform strategies. This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition … economies. We first review the initial conditions confronting these economies, the reform strategy that was proposed, and the … policies and structural reforms, particularly privatization, contributed to the growth recovery. We also conclude that the …

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …