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Economic Reform, Democracy and Growth during Post-Communist Transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

also when controlling for possible endogeneity of liberalization in growth. (2) Democracy encourages liberalization … - countries which introduced greater democracy subsequently progress further in economic liberalization too. (3) Because of its … reinforcing effect on liberalization, democracy has a positive overall impact on growth. Nevertheless, the marginal effect of …

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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North Korea : the last transition economy?

Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020

The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...

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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

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East Germany: Transition With Unification - Experiments and Experiences

Strauch, Rolf; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. German Union meant the transplantation of West Germany's legal, administrative and economic infrastructure to the five new Länder. The...

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Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Transition

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We argue that econometric analyses based on transition countries’ data can be vulnerable to structural breaks across time and/or countries. We demonstrate this argument by identifying structural breaks in growth regressions estimated with data for 25 countries and 16 years. Our method allows...

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Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device

Miller, Marcus; Smith, Jennifer C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An ‘efficiency wage’ model developed for Western economies is reinterpreted for Soviet Russia assuming that it was the Gulag not unemployment that acted as a ‘worker-discipline device’. Archival data now available allows for a basic account of the dynamics of the Gulag to be estimated....

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Threats to security of property rights in a transition economy: An empirical perspective

Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav; Kuznetsov, Andrei; Demina, … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 245-264

Effective property rights protection plays a fundamental role in promoting economic performance. Yet measurement problems make the relationship between property rights and entrepreneurship an ambiguous issue. As an advancement on previous research in this paper we propose a new approach to the...

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Exploring tax evasion in the context of political uncertainty

Katz, Barbara G.; Owen, Joel - In: Economic Systems 37 (2013) 2, pp. 141-154

We present a model of agents facing the uncertainty of two future forms of government who are able to insure against this uncertainty by hiding funds from taxation. In order to choose whether or not to hide funds from taxation, agents need to know policy choices that each government would make...

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Institutional Subversion: Evidence from Russian Regions

Slinko, Irina; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

What are the effects of institutional subversion on small business development, fiscal policies, economic growth, and firm performance? This Paper provides an empirical investigation of institutional subversion in Russia’s regions. We develop a complete account of preferential treatments to...

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