The Economics of Transition

1993 - 2019

Current editor(s): Philippe Aghion and Wendy Carlin

From The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Volume 9, issue 3, 2001

Efficiency and market share in the Hungarian corporate sector pp. 559-592

László Halpern and Gábor Körösi

The effects of transition on the distribution of income in China pp. 593-617

Björn Gustafsson and Shi Li

The effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms pp. 619-633

Jozef Konings

Foreign debt and economic growth pp. 635-655

Shuanglin Lin and Kim Sosin

Squatting as a transition problem in South Africa pp. 657-673

Cedric D. Nathan and Zane Spindler

How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth in China? pp. 679-693

Kevin Honglin Zhang

The impact of foreign direct investment on the relative return to skill pp. 695-715

Xiaodong Wu

Implications of reform and WTO accession for China’ agricultural policies pp. 717-742

Will Martin

The impact of China’s WTO accession on trade and economic relations across the Taiwan Strait pp. 743-785

Zhi Wang

Volume 9, issue 2, 2001

Investment and poverty: The role of the International Financial Institutions: The Jacques de Larosière Lecture pp. 259-280

Nicholas Stern

Measuring the welfare costs of EU accession pp. 281-314

Stephen Pudney, Nikolay Markov and Robert Ackrill

Benchmarking competitiveness in transition economies pp. 315-353

Clifford Zinnes, Yair Eilat and Jeffrey Sachs

Growth, income distribution and well‐being in transition countries pp. 359-394

Carola Grün and Stephan Klasen

Inequality and income: The mediating effects of social spending and risk pp. 395-415

Edward Castronova

The impact of unemployment on inequality and poverty in OECD countries pp. 417-447

Rosa Martínez López, Luis Ayala and Jesús Ruiz‐Huerta

Income mobility and risk during the business cycle: Comparing adjustments in labour markets in two Latin‐American countries pp. 449-461

Quentin Wodon

Social distance between workers: An application to Italian geographic areas pp. 463-486

Conchita D'Ambrosio

Distributive implications of member level income aggregation within the household: An approximation through mobility indices pp. 487-513

Javier Ruiz‐Castillo and Mercedes Sastre

The distributional impact of unification and the 1992–93 recession on West German households pp. 515-532

John A. Bishop, John P. Formby and Lester A. Zeager

Education for the masses? The interaction between wealth, educational and political inequalities pp. 533-552

Francisco Ferreira

Volume 8, issue 3, 2000

Intervention, Corruption and Capture: The Nexus between Enterprises and the State pp. 545-576

Joel Hellman and Mark Schankerman

The Limits of Discipline: Ownership and Hard Budget Constraints in the Transition Economies pp. 577-601

Roman Frydman, Cheryl Gray, Marek Hessel and Andrzej Rapaczynski

From Predation to Accumulation?: The Second Transition Decade in Russia pp. 603-622

Willem Buiter

The Relationship Between Economic Factors and Equity Markets in Central Europe pp. 623-638

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

International Financial Contagion: Why are Eastern Europe's banks not failing when everybody else's are? pp. 639-663

Christian Weller and Bernard Morzuch

The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the CEECs: New evidence from sectoral patterns pp. 665-689

Laura Resmini

The Choice of the Working Secto in Transition: Income and non‐income determinants of sector participation in Kazakhstan pp. 691-731

Paolo Verme

The Uzbek Model of Economic Development, 1991–91 pp. 733-748

Richard Pomfret

Central Bank Independence in Transition Economies pp. 749-789

Wojciech S. Maliszewski

Volume 8, issue 2, 2000

Welfare Impacts of the 1998 Financial Crisis in Russia and the Response of the Public Safety Net pp. 269-295

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

Give Macroeconomic Stability and Growth in Russia a Chance pp. 297-324

Brian Pinto, Vladimir Drebentsov and Alexander Morozov

Law and Finance in Transition Economies pp. 325-368

Katharina Pistor, Martin Raiser and Stanislaw Gelfer

Is Post‐Communist Health Spending Unusual? pp. 369-399

János Kornai and John McHale

Microfinance Beyond Group Lending pp. 401-420

Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch

From Inflation to Growth pp. 421-451

Peter Christoffersen and Peter Doyle

Liquidity Constraints and Investment in Transition Economies pp. 453-475

Nina Budina, Harry Garretsen and Eelke De Jong

Foreign Direct Investment and Enterprise Restructuring in Central Europe pp. 477-504

Ray Barrell and Dawn Holland

Gender Discrimination in Central Europe during the Systemic Transition pp. 505-535

Ariane Pailhé

Volume 8, issue 1, 2000

Entrepreneurs and the Ordering of Institutional Reform: Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine Compared pp. 1-36

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

Bureaucracies in the Russian Voucher Privatization pp. 37-57

Guido Friebel

Theories of Soft Budget Constraints and the Analysis of Banking Crises pp. 59-100

Janet Mitchell

Investment and Finance in de novo private firms: Empirical Results from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland pp. 101-116

Andrzej Bratkowski, Irena Grosfeld and Jacek Rostowski

Hidden Economy – an Unknown Quantity? Comparative Analysis of Hidden Economies in Transition Countries, 1989–95 pp. 117-149

Mária Lackó

Control, Incentives and Competition: The Impact of Reform on Chinese State‐owned Enterprises pp. 151-173

Lixin Xu

Restructuring the Innovation Capacity of the Business Sector in Estonia: Business Survey Result pp. 175-195

Marianne Paasi

Capital Stock and Economic Development in Hungary pp. 197-223

Zsolt Darvas and András Simon

The First Wave of Mass Privatization in Bulgaria and its Immediate Aftermath pp. 225-250

Jeffrey Miller and Stefan Petranov

Explaining the Increase in Inequality during the Transition: a Note pp. 251-252

Robert Eastwood

Volume 7, issue 3, 1999

The determinants of female labour supply in Hungary pp. 575-591

Catherine Saget

New forms of labour contract and labour flexibility in Russia pp. 593-614

Simon Clarke and Vadim Borisov

Economic openness and technical efficiency: A case study of Chinese manufacturing industries pp. 615-636

Haishun Sun, Phillip Hone and Hristos Doucouliago

The political economy of land reform choices in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 637-664

Johan Swinnen

Unemployment durations of job losers in a labour market in transition pp. 665-686

Martina Lubyova and Jan van Ours

Financial crisis in the Russian Federation: Are the Russians learning to tango? pp. 687-715

Thierry Buchs

Tariffs and non‐tariff barriers to trade in Hungary: The impact of the Uruguay Round and EU accession pp. 717-739

Michael Daly and Hiroaki Kuwahara

Selected transition and Mediterranean countries: an institutional primer on EMU and EU accession pp. 741-805

Heliodoro Temprano‐Arroyo and Robert A. Feldman

Volume 7, issue 2, 1999

On the dynamics of inequality in the transition pp. 275-298

Philippe Aghion and Simon Commander

Explaining the increase in inequality during transition pp. 299-341

Branko Milanovic

Education, inequality and transition pp. 343-376

John Micklewright

Economic transition and the distributions of income and wealth pp. 377-410

Francisco Ferreira

Channels of redistribution: Inequality and poverty in the Russian transition pp. 411-447

Simon Commander, Andrei Tolstopiatenko and Ruslan Yemtsov

The effect of privatization on wealth distribution in Russia pp. 449-465

Michael Alexeev

The restructuring of insider‐dominated firms: A comparative analysis pp. 467-479

Simeon Djankov

Privatization, insider control and managerial entrenchment in Russia pp. 481-504

Igor Filatotchev, Mike Wright and Michael Bleaney

Private sector employment in Russia: Scale, composition and performance pp. 505-533

Vladimir Gimpelson and Douglas Lippoldt

Stress test for reforms: Transition and East Asian ‘contagion’ pp. 535-567

Steven Fries, Martin Raiser and Nicholas Stern

Volume 7, issue 1, 1999

Transition and the output fall pp. 1-28

Gérard Roland and Thierry Verdier

Disorganization in the process of transition pp. 29-46

Jozef Konings and Patrick Walsh

Women’s unemployment during transition pp. 47-78

John Ham, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

Competition, entry and the social returns to infrastructure in transition economies pp. 79-101

Philippe Aghion and Mark Schankerman

From federalism, Chinese style to privatization, Chinese style pp. 103-131

Yuanzheng Cao, Yingyi Qian and Barry Weingast

Enterprise restructuring and bank competition in transition economies pp. 133-155

Monika Schnitzer

The early stages of reform in Polish manufacturing pp. 157-177

Luca Barbone, Domenico J. Marchetti and Stefano Paternostro

The wage effects of ethnicity in Estonia pp. 179-199

Charles Kroncke and Kenneth Smith

Research Note: The slow growth of foreign direct investment in the Soviet Union successor states pp. 201-214

Klaus Meyer and Christina Pind

Ownership, exit and voice after mass privatization pp. 215-243

James Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

The gender pay gap in Russia during the transition, 1992‐96 pp. 245-264

Barry Reilly