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(Un)Happiness in Transition
Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667036
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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784949
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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard; Hu, Hu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Very different pension arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542491
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662186
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When formal institutions fail in fostering economic growth: the case of post-communist countries
Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
to demonstrate that transition countries’ institutions that are constructed revolutionarily differ from those that emerge …
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Heterogeneity in Institutional Effects on Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
transition countries’ institutions which are constructed revolutionarily differ from those that emerge evolutionarily in a …
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...
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Building institutions for growth and human developement : an economic perspective applied to transitional countries of Europe and CIS
Zeghni, Sylvain; Fabry, Nathalie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The collapse of the communist system during the late 1980’s redefined the hierarchy among Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and the former USSR. Some of these countries joined the EU ; some did not ; others formed the CIS . In particular, institutions, mainly market and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616806
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Facilitating economic development through the reform of economic instruction
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Economic development in many ways depends on the level of human capital in the national economy, including that of economists. Market reforms in the former Soviet Bloc urged drastic changes in economic curriculum necessary to prepare the next generation of economic leaders. This paper states...
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