whether the recovery observed was due to the successful adoption of structural reforms in labour and product markets or … the Irish recovery is mostly export-driven with structural reforms playing a very minor role in stimulating growth in the …

economic recession alongside labor market reforms raised the inflow rate to and decreased the outflow rate from unemployment in … the early crisis years. The gradual normalization of economic conditions and the adoption of further structural reforms …

ease of doing business, but also the ease of getting credit, domestic credit to private sector and reforms adopted in order …

This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship … changes in their employment outcomes after telecommunications reforms were introduced. The main results point to a …-intensive sectors after the implementation of telecommunications reforms. The analysis does not find a link between the incidence of …

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the … government, minority government and legislature-seat instability). Second, we define reforms as distinct changes in the quality …

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these … reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to … enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense of others. This critique, coupled with the claim that many of the reforms …