In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing …

; whereas transition-related hardships influence support for revising privatization due to both a preference for state property …

Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non-transition … macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition which disproportionately affected …

This study explores how initial endowments at the start of transition have shaped reform outcomes and reform … resources sector at the start of transition underperformed other countries in terms of the speed and the depth of economic …

of the socialist system. Yet during the transition, agricultural production has declined. Low profits, high real interest … growth has resumed. The difficulties of ten years of rural transition offer lessons about the high costs of embedded …