identification, they too narrowly defined what Northian institutions entail. As a matter of fact, political, legal and economic … institutions are highly malleable even in advanced economies, while sustained economic growth could well be deep rooted in …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity … evidence on transition economies. …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

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 Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …

documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards …This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …

We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …