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Businessman Candidates: Special-Interest Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Environments
Gehlbach, Scott; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We initiate examination of the political boundaries of the firm by exploring the phenomenon of ‘businessman candidates’: business owners and managers who bypass conventional means of political influence to run for public office themselves. We argue that in-house production of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136612
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The evolution of post-communist systems : Eastern Europe vs. China
Roland, Gérard - In: Economics of transition 26 (2018) 4, pp. 589-614
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Law enforcement and transition
Roland, Gérard; Verdier, Thierry - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423126
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On the Speed and Sequencing of Privatization and Restructuring
Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper examines aspects of speed and sequencing of restructuring and privatization in economies in transition. It …
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The Role of Political Constraints in Transition Strategies
Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
economic transition. The big bang approach emphasizes the importance of windows of opportunity when ex ante political … reforms so as to build, at each stage of transition, constituencies for further reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791538
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The Political Economy of Transition in the Soviet Union
Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper analyses the political economy of transition in the Soviet Union since Perestroika. It is argued that no … necessitating an increase in the speed of economic transition, in a situation where the political conditions for further reform had … transition and stabilization delays the adoption of necessary economic measures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656344
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The Design of Reform Packages Under Uncertainty
Dewatripont, Mathias; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
We present a model of large-scale economic reforms, modelled on the transition process in Eastern Europe, with …
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Privatization Disputes in Romania – the Petrom Case
Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007
In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government and the media consider the selling price and the...
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Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An “Eliminations Model” of Stalin’s Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives)
Gregory, Paul; Schrôder, Philipp; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper sheds light on dictatorial behavior as exemplified by the mass terror campaigns of Stalin. Dictatorships - unlike democracies where politicians choose platforms in view of voter preferences - may attempt to trim their constituency and thus ensure regime survival via the large scale...
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Political economy of redistribution
Diermeier, Daniel; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 85 (2017) 3, pp. 851-870
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