On the long-run economic performance of ex-communist economies, 1990-2019
Journal: Revista Brasileira de Economia de Empresas
Year: 2024

We evaluate the long-run economic performance of 29 ex-Communist economies over the period 1990-2019, through growth and level decompositionexercises. Among ex-Communists economies, we find that over the last decade the bulk of the international variation in GDP per worker is accounted for by thecross-country variation in factor inputs. Growth decomposition exercises suggest that ex-Communist economies in Central Europe exhibits robust TFP growth, consistent with TFP growth of western market eco