In 1998, the left-of-center government of Hungary carved out a second pillar mandatory private pension system from the …

case study presents the largest-ever land privatization in Hungarian history, when the territories retaken by the Habsburgs … the present renationalization wave in Hungary, if we do not take into account the poisonous historical legacy of the … similar means, even if the general historical conditions are entirely different; and the same notions - like privatization or …

In 1998, the left-of-center government of Hungary carved out a second pillar mandatory private pension system from the …

Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization programs. Using a comprehensive … dataset that includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate the relation between pre-privatization firm …

Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization. Using comprehensive data that … includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate the relation between pre-privatization firm characteristics - the …

With the help of a peculiar institutional feature of early Romanian privatization, when a group of firms was explicitly … that politicians sheltered large and inefficient firms from privatization, which paid low wages and had high overdue … payments. These results are consistent with minimization of employment losses, even if efficiency enhancement of privatization …

The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new … privatization of the Social Security system. The international comparisons have been quite infrequent, concentrated on few countries … (Chile, Great Britain and Sweden) and left out similar reforms introduced in similar situations, like in Hungary, Poland and …

massive increase in the minimum wage that took place in Hungary in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment. …

The goal of this study is to present an insider view on the pension reforms implemented in Hungary between 1996 and …