This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from planned to market
economy in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first …

This article analyses the key features and origins of three variants of transnational capitalism
emerging in Central-Eastern Europe: a neoliberal type in the Baltic states, an embedded …

We advance a dynamic institution‐based view of the firm that extends the theory's current
focus on scope of pro‐market reforms (degree of market liberalization in a given year) to …

Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians,
businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces …

Inequality has generally been increasing in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union but, as predicted by a number of theoretical models, the increase …

Despite an extensive literature on inequality and growth, there remains considerable
disagreement on the effect of inequality on subsequent growth. This paper attempts to …

Trade liberalization in transition economies has been followed by a significant reduction in
government revenue from trade taxes. This paper empirically tests whether and to what …

L'auteur remercie Béatrice Hibou, Olivier Vallée et les rapporteurs anonymes pour leurs
précieux commentaires et conseils sur les versions antérieures de cet article. Il reste …

The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist
transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-initially slowed economic …

The Authors argue that the successful economic and political development of Hungary and
Poland in the 1990s, in part, is due to their relatively favorable" communist legacy" including …