that at the end of planning, transition countries had substantially different endowments from their contemporaneous non-transition … transition in 2002-05, poor transition economies differ much more from their non-transition counterparts, in respect to both good … and bad aspects of the planning legacy, than do relatively rich transition countries. However, the persistent beneficial …

This paper presents a model that explains why in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe an important …

resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labour. We find the Czech … who change jobs have changed sector of employment. Although flows out of employment are small relative to other transition …

This paper examines aspects of speed and sequencing of restructuring and privatization in economies in transition. It …

transition. These firms were selected for listing on the exchange and presumably had better access to external capital. In …

economic transition. The big bang approach emphasizes the importance of windows of opportunity when ex ante political … reforms so as to build, at each stage of transition, constituencies for further reform. …