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Ivanenko, Vlad - 2005

, and considers definitions of "normalcy" that incorporate the concepts of free market, democracy, and government efficiency ….The author provides an estimate of Russia s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the Big Five group of large …, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India.In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five" countries, in …

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Markets and democracy in Russia

Ivanenko, Vlad - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2005

, and considers definitions of "normalcy" that incorporate the concepts of free market, democracy, and government efficiency …. The author provides an estimate of Russia’s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the “Big Five” group … of large, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India. In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five …

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The Post-Soviet Oligarchs and the Nomenklatura Capitalism Hypothesis

Marandici, Ion - 2020

Who are the post-Soviet oligarchs? Have they been members of the nomenklatura before 1991? Did they accumulate their initial wealth before or after privatization? To answer these questions, I have compiled an original data set of oligarchs drawing on publicly available biographical data in the...

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Boycko, Maxim - 2016

1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …

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Market Reforms, Legal Changes and Bank Risk-Taking – Evidence from Transition Economies

Fang, Yiwei - 2011

The policy changes and structural reforms in transition economies over the past two decades have created exogenous variations in institutional development, which offers us an ideal natural experiment to analyse the causal effects of institutions on bank risk-taking behaviour. This paper examines...

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Bank Efficiency in Transition Economies : Recent Evidence from South-Eastern Europe

Fang, Yiwei - 2011

This study examines the cost and profit efficiency of banking sectors in six transition countries of South-Eastern Europe over the period 1998–2008. Using the stochastic frontier approach, our analysis reveals that the average cost efficiency of SEE banks is 68.59% and the average profit...

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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge

Abramitzky, Ran - 2012

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages decreased by two thirds with the collapse,...

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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge

Abramitzky, Ran; Sin, Isabelle - 2012

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...

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Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge

Abramitzky, Ran; Sin, Isabelle - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012

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An abnormal country

Rosefielde, Steven - 2004

factually, and on the norms elaborated by Pareto, Arrow and Bergson that Russia is an abnormal political economy unlikely to …

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