economic transition in post-communist countries. We develop a simple signaling model in which constitutionalism - a commitment …

This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and … sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the …

institutional transition and implementation proportional to the constitutional change …

that characterise the transition process in both the economic and political realms. Contrary to a widespread assumption … survey the vast empirical literature on transition economies in order to provide evidence on the correlation between … expectations at the beginning of transition and success of the transition process. We provide the first comprehensive survey of the …

a public choice perspective, this economic transition from poverty to wealth can be reframed in terms of an escape from … from Burnham’s The Machiavellians (1943), I will offer a constitutional theory of property rights grounded in classical … liberal theory, one that emerges as a by-product of political exchange and entrepreneurship (Wagner 1966). From a …

hinder it? Examining monthly data for 21 transition economies over a shifting monthly window from 1989 to 2012, and using a …