contribution to the literature. In this paper, the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, gross domestic product (GDP …, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). Environmental Kuznets Curve is tested by panel smooth … and no-remaining nonlinearity test showed that there is a smooth transition exists between two regimes (below $5176 GDP …

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment … (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the former. It is also found that the correlation between institutionsand FDI …

There is a consensus among scholars that institutions (i.e. norms and regulations) are country specific. The paper aims … to contribute to the debate by examining the type of institutions which have been the most important for growth in … classical growth factors such as investment and export turn out to be more important for growth than institutions. …