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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals

Campos, Nauro - 2009

partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …

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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro - 2009

ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … finding of a weak effect of exogenous diversity on growth and then we show that accounting for how diversity changes over time … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

Rovelli, Riccardo - 2009

The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and political transition using data from the New Barometer...

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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy : Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … growth. Credit guarantee is one of the most significant positive links between economic growth and democracy. The marginal …

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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide : Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Wunnava, Phani V. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social … fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries … the security of property rights has played a critical role in promoting economic growth. Ethnic heterogeneity has been a …

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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Informal Employment in Transition Countries : Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment.In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we...

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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries : Quantile Regression Approach

Staneva, Anita - 2010

This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...

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