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The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New Economic Policy of the 19205, or NEP, have for the...
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Soviet growth over 1960-89 was the worst in the world after we control for investment and human capital; the relative performance worsens over time. The declining Soviet growth rate over 1950-87 is explained by the declining marginal product of capital; the rate of TFP growth is roughly constant...
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per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people …
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While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high saving rates, the housing boom, an expanding current...
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The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …
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This paper reviews six English-language books on the economy of Israel. Each book was written or edited by Israelis …, and each is from a different decade. The earliest book, Don Patinkin's The Israel Economy: The First Decade, was written … in the late 1950s, and the most recent volume, The Israeli Economy, 1985 - 1998: From Government Intervention to Market …
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