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Must the rule of law spring upon us solely by accident and force, or can it also emerge as a product of political reflection and choice? As the lessons in the political and economic transition of centrally planned economies in Europe and Asia illustrate, the transitional movement requires an...
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to limit political power and provide judicial defense of basic rights - reinforces the credibility of pro …
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We use three different indicators based on inflation expectations to measure central bank credibility in 9 countries in … Central and Eastern Europe. We quantify credibility using differences between official inflation targets and inflation …. Determinants of central bank credibility are investigated using pooled OLS. According to our results, stable and low inflation and …
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In Hungary and the Central-European region, state regulation has been at the forefront of interest since the beginning of the economic transition. Among the many interesting questions raised, we would like to analyze the problem of building an appropriate regulatory system allowing the industry...
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the de facto the exchange rate regimes and derive a market based measure of the credibility of these exchange rate regimes …. We empirically determine the de facto exchange rate regimes of EU accession countries and test their credibility as … assessed by the market participants. In the run-up to EU accession most CEEC have reached high credibility in their exchange …
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countries (CEECs) can potentially enhance the credibility of their governments' policies through institutional integration with … the EU. The paper discusses the credibility problems faced by the CEECs and shows how EU membership will enhance the … institutional setting and the governments' credibility. Based on regression results between an indicator of institutional change and …
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possible ways of enhancing credibility. …
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During the last phase of state socialism, the economic reforms attempted by these counties didn't stop the collapse of communism. Neither did the free market economic reforms in the democratic West starting around 1975 bring progress and prosperity expected. The frustrations of both these...
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This paper explores the problem of credible commitment that public officials face with regard to institutional reform. Doug North points out that while economies grow as a result of the provision of governance, I argue that creating an entity with a geographic monopoly simultaneously limits the...
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Public discontent with Mr. Lukashenko's authoritarian rule had been piling up for years and came to the surface after the fraudulent presidential election held in August 2020. At present the country is in a political stalemate as the official election results are challenged by a large part of...
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