This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...

Transition countries provide a natural experiment to study the development of land markets. This paper provides survey-evidence of the variation in the development of land markets, identifies a series of patterns, and provides a set of hypotheses to explain these variations in land market...

While many observers thought it was premature for Czech Prime Minister Klaus to suggest in 1995 the transition was over except for fine-tuning , as we approach the 20th year after the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989,-and the 18th after the dissolution of the Soviet Union at Byelovezha-...

In diesem Aufsatz wird der ordnungspolitische Hintergrund der menschlichen Entwicklung untersucht. Dabei steht eine empirische Analyse der Faktoren dieser Entwicklung im Vordergrund. Es soll gezeigt werden, dass Ökonometrie ein guter Werkzeug auch für vergleichende Analyse der...