are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

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. …

institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests …. Current institutional evolutions in transition countries might be more affected by their long run past than by the communist … experience of the twentieth century. -- culture ; institutional change ; transition ; economic history …

developed and transition economies. The results confirm that good institutions have positive and similar effects on productivity … negative moderation in the case of transition economies, while easiness of doing business moderates positively this … relationship for both groups of countries. The moderation effects are larger for transition economies and trade-related spillovers …

-ULCs for 23 newly industrialized, developing, and transition countries in addition to the 21 industrial countries covered by …

The paper is analysing the process of economic convergence of transition countries during the period 1995-2004. Within … the analysed period unconditional B-convergence across the transition economies existed. We could also discover the …

transition. We highlight methodological problems in these studies, noting the existence of simultaneous causation and the use of … changes in determining growth performance in the first four years of transition. Growth performance during the early years of … transition has a strong effect on liberalization speed …