transition from communist to market oriented economies. …

The aim of the paper is to investigate the development of China’s state-controlled firms in the consumer electronics … different ways of development of China’s state-controlled firms with different competitive position. …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …

, namely government spending, military research and development facilities, defense production facilities, armed forces and …

Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, we offer a political … economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies. We identify dependence on … building during transition. Using natural resource reliance and the years under socialism to extract the exogenous component of …

would expect that their economic policy would be such as to stand in the way of their economic development. This fact is …

political development. …

Russian population about the transition process and the role of the state compared to that of free markets. We find that about … one half of Russian population is disappointed with transition and a large majority is in favor of high state regulation …