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While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery … conditions, external factors, and reform strategies. This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition …
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This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to … important in explaining the growth of the transition countries in the years since the end of the Cold War. In the mid 90s a …
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Post-communist countries offer new evidence on the relative importance of courts and relationships in enforcing contracts. Belief in the effectiveness of courts has a significant positive effect on the level of trust shown in new relationships between firms and their customers. Well-functioning...
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determinants of household saving rates in transition economies. We find savings rates to increase strongly in relative income and … household in the transition process, notably the sector of employment, plays no significant role in determining savings rates …
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We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and India. In contrast, the central European transition countries such as …
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During the past five years, there has been an important debate over the differing styles of market reforms in the formerly planned economies in East Asia versus Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (EEFSU). This paper puts forward three related propositions. First, the rapid growth of East...
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We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge frontier causing a sudden release of previously...
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reforms. It computes a complementarity index based on structural reform indicators compiled by the EBRD for transition …
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When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the rule of law. That didn't happen. We present a dynamic equilibrium model of the political demand for the rule of law and show that beneficiaries of mass privatization may fail to...
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This paper contrasts International Social Science Programme (ISSP) surveys for Hungary, supplemented with related survey data for East Germany, Poland, and Slovenia, with ISSP data for Western countries, to examine the extent to which workers in traditionally communist societies differ in their...
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