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 …

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …

market economies. These transitions entail far-reaching and complex changes in social, economic and political institutions … that characterise the transition process in both the economic and political realms. Contrary to a widespread assumption …, market-supporting institutions do not necessarily arise when assets are privatised in a highly unstable and uncertain …

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 …

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

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

to gender inequality in other transition countries. …