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Echoes of the past : the enduring impact of communism on contemporary freedom of speech values
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442619
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Echoes of the past : the enduring impact of communism on contemporary freedom of speech values
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445735
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The Political Economy of Utopia : Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921
Boettke, Peter J. - 2010
It has become a copybook maxim to assert that the policy of "War Communism" was imposed on the Bolsheviks by the Civil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199458
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Religious Diversity : Helping or Hindering Entrepreneurs in Transition Countries?
Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - 2014
Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper studies the association between local religious diversity and individual entrepreneurial behavior in 29 transition countries. We find that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157435
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Tasting Freedom : Happiness, Religion and Economic Transition
Lelkes, Orsolya - 2002
to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contributes positively to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112124
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Changing Religious Intensity and Growth in Human Development in Post-Communist Countries
Saunders, Kent T. - 2022
the literature on growth theory and religion, discuss the use of the World Values Surveys to measure religious intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081036
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Can Religion Insure Against Aggregate Shocks to Happiness? The Case of Transition Countries
Popova, Olga - 2010
This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and religion on happiness in transition economies. Previous literature … marital separation. I estimate an econometric model to study if religion also insures against aggregate shocks to happiness … religion and analyzes the effects of religion on life satisfaction, and perceptions of the current economic and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189622
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Market reform and state paternalism in Hungary: a path-dependent approach
Benczes, István - 2009
Hungary is one of the worst-hit countries of the current financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. The deteriorating economic performance of the country is, however, not a recent phenomenon. A relatively high ratio of redistribution, a high and persistent public deficit and accelerated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854437
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's mortality crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580554
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On the Laffer Effect in Post-Communist Economies : On the Bases of the Observation of Russian Literature
Papava, Vladimer - 2012
Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097347