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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2011
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia’s 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the “Russian …% and 49% of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia’s transition to capitalism and democracy was not as lethal as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183713
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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 … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as … lethal as commonly suggested. -- mortality ; transition ; alcohol ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580554
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099790
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Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred : Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2002
Although the theoretical literature has identified various sizeable benefits from foreign direct investment inflows (FDI), the empirical literature has been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the rates of economic growth of host countries. One reason for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118275
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488896
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic, performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic, crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013777
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Shock Therapy Versus Gradualism Reconsidered : Lessons from Transition Economies after 15 Years of Reforms
Popov, Vladimir - 2010
This paper starts by separating the transformational recession (reduction of output in most transition economies in the first half of the 1990s) from the process of economic growth (recovery from the transformational recession) in 28 transition economies (including China, Vietnam and Mongolia)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056979
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111368
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The COVID-19 curtain : can past communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination decisions across Europe? To study this question we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178127
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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination decisions across Europe? To study this question we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698067