" type of economic policy, may hardly lead a country towards "real income" convergence on her long-run development path …, as a more convenient development paradigm on the way to both: real and overall convergence between CEECs and EU …

had closed. This “happiness convergence” has taken place both due to a “happiness recovery” in post-communist countries … that the convergence in life satisfaction was primarily driven by middle-income young educated individuals, regardless of …

possibility of implementing far reaching pro-market reforms and show that competition beliefs underlay support for economic reform …We analyse and compare individual beliefs about the effects of competition and their evolution over time in transition … economies and experienced market economies. At the onset of transition, competition beliefs in transition countries are far more …