The economics of transition
Subtitle: the fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics
By: edited by Erik Berglöf and Gérard Roland.
Contributors: Berglöf, Erik.; Roland, Gérard, 1954-; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. Östekonomiska institutet.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781403996398
Subjects: Economic history -- 1990-; Post-communism -- Economic aspects.; Economics -- Political aspects.
Notes: "Nobel Symposia; SITE."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : economics and transition / Erik Berglöf and Gérard Roland; value: Soft budget constraint theories : from centralization to the market / Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu; value: When does privatization work? The impact of private ownership on corporate performance in the transition economies / Roman Frydman, Cheryl Gray, Marek Hessel and Andrzej Rapaczynski; value: Disorganization and financial collapse / Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer; value: Transition with labor supply / Tito Boeri; value: The evolution of output in transition economies : explaining the differences / Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Ratna Sahay and Jeromin Zettelmeyer; value: Property rights and finance / Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff; value: Courts and relational contracts / Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff; value: Dodging the grabbing hand : the determinants of unofficial activity in 69 countries / Eric Friedman, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton; value: Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after communism / Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff; value: The causes of corruption : a cross-national study / Daniel Treisman; value: Incentives to provide local public goods : fiscal federalism, Russian style / Ekaterina V. Zhuravskaya; value: Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives : federalism, Chinese style / Hehui Jin, Yingyi Qian and Barry R. Weingast; value: The razor's edge : distortions and incremental reform in the People's Republic of China / Alwyn Young; value: Coordinating reforms in transition economies / Yingyi Qian, Gerard Roland and Chenggang Xu.