In jüngster Zeit wird in den Wirtschafts- und Politikwissenschaften wieder vermehrt auf die Bedeutung der Qualität politischer und ökonomischer Institutionen für die Prosperität von Volkswirtschaften hingewiesen. Dabei erscheint es reizvoll, als bewährt erscheinende Institutionen auf...

This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a panel of 25 countries over 19 years. Earlier investigations found political and economic liberalization to be positively correlated whereas the relation between political...

In the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, monetary policy played a subordinate role, there were no capital-market institutions and the banking system was single-tier. All this has to be changed in the transition to a market economy. The example of Hungary, which abolished the...