supporting institutions such as property rights and rule of law. But how do these two aspects of the institutional environment … hinder it? Examining monthly data for 21 transition economies over a shifting monthly window from 1989 to 2012, and using a …

This paper uses firm-level survey data to study labor reallocation and firm growth in the transition countries over … comparable surveys of developed market economies. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence in the transition … countries that joined the European Union in 2004 than in the other, lower-income transition economies. We also find evidence of …

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 …

economy in transition creates its own demand for the enforcement of laws to protect those rights. Our model contains a …

entrepreneurial indicators: new firm creation, incumbent firm survival, and overall firm stock. Findings reveal that while transition …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide … support for this argument. -- asset stripping ; law enforcement ; corruption ; transition …

of macroeconomic stability and the formation of the institutions appropriate to a market economy reach their logical …

Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is rather clear what transition policies have worked. Almost …