| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
examining performance and divergence in transition economies |
| 作者: |
HartwellChristopher, 1973- |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
| 標題: |
Economic stabilization. - |
| 標題: |
Post-communism - Economic aspects. - |
| 標題: |
Comparative economics. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137323712 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
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 look at the conventional wisdom finds exactly the opposite is true: surveying 20 years of data, Dr. Christopher Hartwell finds that institutions were not neglected in the transition process, and only in places where they were was there stagnation. Moreover, in a brand-new piece of analysis, this book finds that the leadership of transition countries made as much of a difference for a country's success or failure than the policies pursued. Finally, revisiting the 'institutional neglect' debate, Dr. Hartwell asserts that only a few basic economic institutions, including property rights, were important for a successful transition. |
| ISBN: |
9781137323712electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
113732371Xelectronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
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. |