What determines the institutional change in transition economies?

Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...

Institutional determinants of investment in transition economies

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paper analyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution is measured by the Freedom House’s Political Rights and Civil Liberties indexes; economic institution is proxied by the Index of Economic Freedom co...

What Determines the Martensitic Transition Temperature in Alloys ?

A study of strategy of Small Economies facing the Transition of large Economies Industrial Structure

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Structural Change in Transition Economies: Does Foreign Aid Matter?

This paper addresses whether the initial declines in the manufacturing and real wages in transition economies were anything unexpected to justify policy reversal, and whether the “often-recommended” foreign aid would have helped them curb these declines in any significant way. It answers these questions with the help of a two-sector three-factor small open economy model and simulation exercises...