transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have …

transition countries. It employs a new set of the institutional variables published by the World Bank against the commonly used … transition index of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Also, the paper tests the validity of some arguments …

and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political … the Index of Economic Freedom compiled by the Heritage Foundation; and transition progress is documented by the European … Bank for Reconstruction and Development's transition index. Panel data estimation techniques are applied and the results …

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … performance in transition countries than institutionsper se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace should be … the main policypriorities in transition, closely followed by institution building. …