macroeconomic conditions as facilitating structural reforms outweighs countervailing effects in the sense of lower reform pressure …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 …

reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel …What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that …

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain …

Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be … required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory … transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This paper provides sufficient conditions for this to occur, despite tax …

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and banking sectors, product and labor markets, agriculture, and trade for …

sample. We contribute by (a) using a new up-to-date dataset of reforms and crises and (b) subjecting it to a combination of … lead to a reversal of liberal reforms, suggesting that governments react to crises by re-regulating financial markets …

Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use … these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular … geographical locations. If this were the case, Māori may have been disadvantaged in the post-reform period because they were more …