The Central, Eastern, and South Eastern European (CESEE) region is ripe for a reassessment of the role of the state in economic activity. The rapid income convergence with Western Europe of the early 2000s was not always equally shared across society, and it has now slowed dramatically in many...

Starting from the observation that some of the East European post-socialist governments produced coherent reform policies which successfully transformed their countries’ economies into capitalist ones, while others lingered behind muddling through half hearted reforms, this paper takes a...