, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

likely to happen by government decree. Instead, they usually come about when the unanimous blocking of reform by powerful … sustainability of reform depends on the existence of new groups that benefit from the new status quo and have enough power to defend … it. Thus, the speed of successful reform is determined by the speed with which new groups are consolidated. Initially …

wages and prices. -- reform reversals ; price liberalization ; trade liberalization ; privatization ; political economy … reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel … evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

from authoritarian rule and its supporting elite networks and fails to recognize the link between central government …

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii …

explanations for why that is the case; many individuals will simply not know how they will fare under trade reform, and this can … reduce support for a reform which would have been otherwise popular, even in the absence of risk aversion. We show that …