Markets, democracy, and privatizationthe theoretical argument -- Neo-liberal privatization -- Institutional policy design, politics, and the creation of capitalism -- Ownership regimes : the basic model of how they form -- The two trajectories of ownership regime evolution -- Czech privatization...

Applied econometrics has recently emphasized the identification of causal parameters for policy analysis. This revolution has yet to fully propagate to the field of regional science. We examine the scope for application of the matching approach – part of the modern applied econometrics toolkit...