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Economic Reform, Democracy and Growth during Post-Communist Transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

also when controlling for possible endogeneity of liberalization in growth. (2) Democracy encourages liberalization … - countries which introduced greater democracy subsequently progress further in economic liberalization too. (3) Because of its … reinforcing effect on liberalization, democracy has a positive overall impact on growth. Nevertheless, the marginal effect of …

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East Germany: Transition With Unification - Experiments and Experiences

Strauch, Rolf; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. German Union meant the transplantation of West Germany's legal, administrative and economic infrastructure to the five new Länder. The...

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Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Transition

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We argue that econometric analyses based on transition countries’ data can be vulnerable to structural breaks across time and/or countries. We demonstrate this argument by identifying structural breaks in growth regressions estimated with data for 25 countries and 16 years. Our method allows...

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Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device

Miller, Marcus; Smith, Jennifer C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An ‘efficiency wage’ model developed for Western economies is reinterpreted for Soviet Russia assuming that it was the Gulag not unemployment that acted as a ‘worker-discipline device’. Archival data now available allows for a basic account of the dynamics of the Gulag to be estimated....

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Institutional Subversion: Evidence from Russian Regions

Slinko, Irina; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

What are the effects of institutional subversion on small business development, fiscal policies, economic growth, and firm performance? This Paper provides an empirical investigation of institutional subversion in Russia’s regions. We develop a complete account of preferential treatments to...

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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

Beirne, John; Campos, Nauro F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...

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Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries Referenda

Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We analyse support for EU membership as expressed in voting patterns in the candidate countries’ referenda on EU … membership, using regional referendum results and individual survey data on voting intentions. We find that favourable individual …

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Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behaviour

Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

investigate the impact of institutional, political and economic characteristics on migrants’ voting behaviour. The political … voting behaviour: adaptive learning; economic self-selection and political self-selection. The results of the analysis … suggest that migrant voting behaviour is affected by the institutional environment of the host countries, in particular the …

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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations

Bluedorn, John; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...

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Making Autocracy Work

Besley, Timothy J.; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...

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