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Institutional barriers in the transition to market :

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1137323701

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113732371X

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Institutional barriers in the transition to market :

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examining performance and divergence in transition economies

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Christopher Hartwell.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

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Palgrave Macmillan,

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2013.

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Foreword -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Challenge: Economics Literature and the Explanation of Transition -- PART II: DEFINING AND MEASURING INSTITUTIONS -- 2. Institutional Systems -- 3. Types of Institutions Within an Institutional System -- 4. Applying the Taxonomy in Transition -- 5. Political Institutions -- 6. Economic Institutions -- 7. How to Measure Institutions? Indicators and Proxies -- PART III: TWO DECADES OF TRANSITION AND INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH: A REVIEW -- 8. Transition Economics and Explaining 1989-91 -- 9. New Institutional Economics and its Application to Transition Economies -- PART IV: INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSITION: WERE THEY REALLY NEGLECTED? -- 10. What was 'Neglected?' And How? -- 11. Examining the 'Neglect' Argument -- 12. Institutions Before 1989: The Market under Communism -- 13. Institutional Change in Transition -- 14. Political Institutions -- 15. Economic Institutions -- 16. The Correlation between Macroeconomic Stabilization and Institutional Change -- 17. An Econometric Analysis of Institutional Change and Economic Outcomes in Transition -- 18. Conclusions -- PART V: THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONS IN ECONOMIC OUTCOMES IN TRANSITION -- 19. Policies versus Institutions: Which is Which? -- 20. Policies versus Institutions: Which is More Important? -- 21. Adding a Third Dimension: A New Model of Growth in Transition -- 22. Results and Analysis -- 23. Instrumenting for Personality -- 24. Conclusions -- PART VI: THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSITION -- 25. Examining Institutions in Transition -- 26. Modeling Institutional Influence -- 27. Results -- 28. Summary of GLS and GMM Regressions -- 29. Instrumental Variables: Combating Endogeneity -- 30. From Politics to Economics -- 31. From Economics to Politics? -- 32. Moving Beyond Political to Economic (and Back): Cultural and Initial Factors -- 33. Regressions -- 34. Relative Influence of Institutions: Some Conclusions -- PART VII: CONCLUSION AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- 35. Agenda for Further Research.

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Conventional wisdom has it that the transition from communism to capitalism faltered because 'institutions were neglected.' Popular thinkers and even Nobel laureates have proclaimed that the emphasis on stabilization policies (including the much-maligned 'Washington Consensus') in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union led to an institutional vacuum and caused more hardship than necessary. This new lookConventional wisdom has it that the transition from communism to capitalism faltered because 'institutions were neglected.' Popular thinkers and even Nobel laureates have proclaimed that the emphasis on stabilization policies (including the much-maligned 'Washington Consensus') in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union led to an institutional vacuum and caused more hardship than necessary. This new lookConventional wisdom has it that the transition from communism to capitalism faltered because 'institutions were neglected.' Popular thinkers and even Nobel laureates have proclaimed that the emphasis on stabilization policies (including the much-maligned 'Washington Consensus') in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union led to an institutional vacuum and caused more hardship than necessary. This new look

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