, 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 …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …

, including a purely public option, complete privatization or a hybrid model with private firms and public catastrophic insurance … risks of any reform come from the political process. This paper examines the political risks, related to corruption and …

review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for …