We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages decreased by two thirds with the collapse,...

Constitutional acts seldom constitute a subject of interest for translators who tend to focus their attention on more commonly translated legal acts. It should be noted, however, that constitutional terminology is frequently applied in subordinate legislation. In the light of the European...

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...