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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is Still Kicking: The Case of RussiaFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Economic development Institutional economics Post-communismBook Chapter
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and SectorsFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Commerce Economic development Industrial organization (Economic theory)Book Chapter
Transition, Structural Divergence, and Performance: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over 2000-2007From the book: Economies in Transition
Communist Economic development Industrial productivityBook Chapter
The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1989From the book: Economies in Transition
Economic development Industrialization Post-communismBook Chapter
Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional ChangeFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Communist Economic development Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Central Asia after Two Decades of IndependenceFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Communist Comparative economics Economic developmentBook Chapter
IntroductionFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Economic policy Institutional economics Post-communismBlog
From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)
Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The temperature is well below zero (minus 20 o c)...
Commercial policy Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic developmentBlog
Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years after the Fall of The Berlin Wall
Gérard Roland The above titled book, published by Palgrave Macmillan 2012, brings together contributions from a conference that took place in Helsinki in September 2009...
Capitalism Democracy DemocratizationWorking Paper
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and SectorsThis study gauges the status of transition in the formerly centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using a broad approach that compares countries with respect to their business environment, competition, and managerial practice...
Commerce Economic development Industrial organization (Economic theory)Working Paper
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated to Promote Growth?Rapid economic development in China in the post-1978 era has been considered 'intriguing' and 'puzzling' since it occurred under the dominance of the Chinese Communist Party – the fusion of politics and economics is supposed to ...
Communist Economic development Political scienceWorking Paper
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years...
Communist History of economics Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern EuropeTwenty years after the fall of the iron curtain—which for decades had separated East from West—most countries of Central and Eastern Europe are now members of the European Union; some have even adopted the euro...
Commercial law Financial institutions Government financingWorking Paper
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China ComparedIn the former socialist redistributive economies, the transition to market economy and the conversion to private ownership followed different trajectories...
Income distribution Post-communism SocialismWorking Paper
Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005This paper, using for the first time household survey data from 26 post-communist countries, covering the period 1990-2005, examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of these economies...
Economic policy Income distribution Panel analysisWorking Paper
Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: The Case of RussiaOnly recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991...
Economic development Institutional economics Post-communism