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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives …
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings … German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech …
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it to the railroad, electricity, and telecommunications sectors in Russia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland …
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The paper reports on multiplier analysis of comparable Social Accounting Matrices for Russia and China. The benchmark … decades. Growth multipliers in China are found to be higher than in Russia, reflecting more intensive and relatively equally … spread circular flow interactions. Income multipliers are found to be less regressive in China than in Russia, which reflect …
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Transition requires the reallocation of resources across activities through closure of inefficient firms and the creation of new firms. It also requires restructuring of existing firms where improvements in performance are feasible. Both processes are closely tied together and are aimed at...
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In the last decade, nearly a dozen countries, once part of the USSR, have undertaken the transition to market economies. In some cases, the new economic systems that have developed cannot be squeezed into any theoretically generalized models of capitalism. The main reason these systems evade...
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This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation in the quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The adoption of strong parliamentarian systems has countered the adverse effects of...
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We show that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation in the quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The adoption of strong parliamentarian systems has negated the deleterious effects of religious and imperial history on economic evolution. As...
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