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[BOOK] Transition and economics: Politics, markets, and firms

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G Roland… - 2000 - Wiley Online Library
This book seeks to provide an overview of academic research on the transition process, and,
as it is the product of several PhD courses offered by the author in the late 1990s, a graduate
textbook on transition. In some ways, the book succeeds admirably, but in other ways it ...
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Federalism and the soft budget constraint

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Y Qian… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The government's incentives to bail out inefficient projects are determined by the
trade-off between political benefits and economic costs, the latter depending on the
decentralization of government. Two effects of federalism are derived: First, fiscal ...
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Separation of powers and political accountability

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T Persson, G Roland… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1997 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Political constitutions are incomplete contracts and therefore leave room for abuse
of power. In democracies, elections are the primary mechanism for disciplining public
officials, but they are not sufficient. Separation of powers between executive and ...
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The breakup of nations: a political economy analysis

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P Bolton… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper develops a model of the breakup or unification of nations. In each nation
the decision to separate is taken by majority voting. A basic trade-off between the efficiency
gains of unification and the costs in terms of loss of control on political decisions is ...
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Comparative politics and public finance

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T Persson, G Roland… - 1997 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We present a model of electoral accountability to compare the public finance
outcomes under a presidential-congressional and a parliamentary system. In a presidential-
congressional system, contrary to a parliamentary system, there are no endogenous ...
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Understanding the soft budget constraint

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J Kornai, E Maskin… - Journal of Economic Literature, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: We propose a clarification of the notion of a soft budget constraint, a concept widely
used in the analysis of socialist, transitional, and market economies. Our interpretation is
broad enough to embrace most existing approaches to soft budget constraint phenomena ...
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Reform without losers: An interpretation of China's dual-track approach to transition

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LJ Lau, Y Qian… - Journal of Political Economy, 2000 - JSTOR
This paper develops a simple model to analyze the dual-track approach to market
liberalization as a mechanism for implementing efficient Pareto-improving economic reform,
that is, reform achieving efficiency without creating losers. The approach, based on the ...
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The design of reform packages under uncertainty

M Dewatripont… - The American Economic Review, 1995 - JSTOR
We present a model of large-scale economic reforms, modeled on the transition process in
Eastern Europe, with aggregate and individual uncertainty concerning the outcome of
reforms. The government is assumed to choose the speed and sequencing of reforms. We ...
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[BOOK] Democratic politics in the European Parliament

S Hix, A Noury… - 2007 - books.google.com
Page 1. ratic Politics e European n i /A Simon, Page 2. Bibliography Aldrich, John
H. (1995) Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America,
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. Alesina, Alberto ...
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The virtues of gradualism and legitimacy in the transition to a market economy

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M Dewatripont… - The Economic Journal, 1992 - JSTOR
This paper addresses two policy issues relevant to the transition from plan to market in
Central and Eastern Europe. First, are there any virtues to'gradualist'strategies as opposed
to'big bang'strategies, in the transition process? Second, to what extent is the introduction ...
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Economic reform and dynamic political constraints

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M Dewatripont… - The Review of Economic …, 1992 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In this paper, we examine the impact of political constraints on economic reform
plans, with special reference to the transition from centrally planned to market economies.
We analyse the problem of an agenda-setting reform-minded Government facing a ...
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The political economy of transition

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G Roland - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. The Political Economy of Transition Gérard Roland Political economy
arguments have been at the heart of debates and contro- versies on strategies of
transition from socialism to capitalism. For example, advocates of ...
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Power to the parties: cohesion and competition in the European Parliament, 1979–2001

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S Hix, A Noury… - British Journal of Political …, 2005 - Cambridge Univ Press
Page 1. BJPol.S. 35, 209–234 Copyright © 2005 Cambridge University Press DOI:
10.1017/S0007123405000128 Printed in the United Kingdom Power to the Parties:
Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979–2001 ...
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Transition and the output fall

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G Roland… - Economics of transition, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract We present a model to explain why in the transition economies of Central
andEastern Europe an important output fall has been associated with price liberalization. Its
key ingredients are search frictions and Williamsonian relation-specific investment, ...
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Understanding institutional change: Fast-moving and slow-moving institutions

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G Roland - Studies in Comparative International Development ( …, 2004 - Springer
Page 1. Understanding Institutional Change: Fast-Moving and Slow-Moving Institutions*
G rard Roland This article proposes a classification of "slow-moving" and "fast-moving"
institu- tions, and discusses the potential results of their interaction. ...
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Dimensions of politics in the European Parliament

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S Hix, A Noury… - American Journal of Political …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the dimensionality of politics in the European Parliament by applying a
scaling method to all roll-call votes between 1979 and 2001 in the European Parliament.
Contrary to most existing studies using these methods, we are able to interpret the ...
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Economic theories of the break-up and integration of nations

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P Bolton, G Roland… - European Economic Review, 1996 - Elsevier
... EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW ELSEVIER European Economic Review 40 (1996) 697-705
Economic theories of the break-up and integration of nations Patrick Bolton ^, Gerard Roland ^ *,
Enrico Spolaore ^' * Z^)H^on Sc/!00/ o/Bcono^tc^, LoM^on, U^ ECARB. ...
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[BOOK] Defensive and strategic restructuring in Central European enterprises

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I Grosfeld, G Roland… - 1995 - umrpse.ens.fr
Eastern European countries compared to structural adjustments, say, in Latin America.
Entreprises must not only be reorganized in order to improve their productive efficiency, and
thus transform their work organization and incentive structures. They must also transform ...
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Soft budget constraints and banking in transition economies

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E Berglof… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
In this paper, we focus on soft budget constraints for enterprises that are financed by banks
in transition economies and analyze several theoretical models as variants of a basic
sequential model. Despite various transmission channels for soft budget constraints, all ...
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On the speed and sequencing of privatisation and restructuring

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G Roland - The Economic Journal, 1994 - JSTOR
Issues of speed and sequencing have played an important role in debates on privatisation
policies and restructuring. Should one privatise before or after restructuring, or should both
proceed simultaneously? Should there be a sequencing in privatisation or not, and if so, ...
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Law enforcement and transition

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G Roland… - European Economic Review, 2003 - Elsevier
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[PDF] Electoral rules and government spending in parliamentary democracies

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T Persson, G Roland… - Quarterly Journal of Political …, 2007 - elsa.berkeley.edu
ABSTRACT We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy where electoral
competition inside coalition governments induces higher spending than under single party
governments. Policy preferences of parties are endogenous and derived from ...
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Privatization Policies in Central and Eastern Europe

P Bolton, G Roland, J Vickers… - Economic Policy, 1992 - JSTOR
... Eastern Europe Patrick Bolton and Gerard Roland Summary This paper assesses policies of
mass privatization in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. ... Eastern Europe Patrick
Bolton and Gerard Roland ECARE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR ...
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Soft budget constraints and credit crunches in financial transition

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E Berglöf… - European Economic Review, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper provides a framework for understanding the lingering problem of soft budget
constraints in many transition economies even after the macroeconomic situation has been
stabilized and a sound banking system has been introduced. We show that soft budget ...
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How do electoral rules shape party structures, government coalitions, and economic policies?

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T Persson, G Roland… - 2003 - nber.org
We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures,
government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts
that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending ...
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Privatization in Eastern Europe:: Irreversibility and critical mass effects

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G Roland… - Journal of Public Economics, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper proposes a model to shed light on two important policy features of
privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: the idea of a necessary critical mass of
privatization on one hand, and the great difficulties encountered in the actual privatization ...
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Transition as a process of large‐scale institutional change

M Dewatripont… - Economics of Transition, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Economics of Transition, Volume 4 (I), 1-30, 1996 Transition as a process of large-scale
institutional change Mathias Dewatripont and G6rard Roland' ECARE Universid Libre de Bruxelles
39 av. FD Roosevelt 1050 Brussels Belgium TEL:322 650 4475 Abstract ...
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The optimal speed of transition: A general equilibrium analysis

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M Castanheira… - International Economic Review, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2000 THE
OPTIMAL SPEED OF TRANSITION: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS* By
Micael Castanheira and Gérard Roland† 1 IGIER, Bocconi ...
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The role of political constraints in transition strategies

G Roland - Economics of Transition, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Political constraints play an important role in the transition process in Eastern Europe.
Recent election results in Poland, and especially in Russia, remind us that it is not very
realistic to devise transition programmes that do not take these constraints into account. In ...
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The long run impact of bombing Vietnam

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E Miguel… - 2006 - nber.org
We investigate the impact of US bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The
Vietnam War featured the most intense bombing campaign in military history and had
massive humanitarian costs. We use a unique US military dataset containing bombing ...
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Who are Russia's entrepreneurs?

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S Djankov, E Miguel, Y Qian… - Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Social scientists studying entrepreneurship have emphasized three distinct sets of
variables: the institutional environment, sociological variables, and personal and
psychological characteristics. We are conducting surveys in five large developing and ...
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Bank restructuring and soft budget constraints in financial transition

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E Berglöf… - Journal of the Japanese and International …, 1995 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes in a formal model the problem of achieving financial discipline in a
transitional economy with bank-intermediated finance. Even if banks have no intrinsic
interest in refinancing unprofitable firms, they may still exploit the softness of government. ...
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Ten years after... transition and economics

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G Roland - IMF Staff papers, 2001 - JSTOR
... 2001 International Monetary Fund Ten Years After ... Transition and Economics GERARD
ROLAND* This paper attempts to portray a synthesis of what has been learned in the past 10
years with regard to the transition process. ... 41 Page 14. Gerard Roland further reform. ...
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Managerial career concerns, privatization and restructuring in transition economies

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G Roland… - European Economic Review, 2000 - Elsevier
We set up a dynamic adverse selection model to explain how career concerns may induce
managers in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to restructure their firms. It is shown how
government monopsony power over managers led to the ratchet effect under a socialist ...
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Who are China's entrepreneurs?

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S Djankov, Y Qian, G Roland… - The American economic …, 2006 - JSTOR
Page 1. ENTREPRENEURS AND ENTERPRISES IN CHINA'S TRANSITION TO
MARKETt Who Are China's Entrepreneurs? By SIMEON DJANKOV, YINGYI QIAN,
GE"RARD ROLAND, AND EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA* It ...
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Coordination and experimentation in M‐form and U‐form organizations

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Y Qian, G Roland… - Journal of Political Economy, 2006 - JSTOR
We compare the performance of organizational forms (M-form and U-form) in experimenting
with uncertain projects. In our framework, organizational forms affect the information
structure of an organization and thus the way to coordinate changes. Compared to the U- ...
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The soft budget constraint in China

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Y Qian… - Japan and the World Economy, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper identifies five factors affecting the degree of softness or hardness of budget
constraints of enterprises in China. Budget constraints become harder:(1) under fiscal
decentralization and competition between regions;(2) under more competitive labor and ...
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Soft budget constraints, transition, and financial systems

M Dewatripont… - … of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE …, 2000 - JSTOR
... 156 (2000) © 2000 Mohr Siebeck - ISSN 0932-4569 Page 2. 246 Mathias Dewatripont
and Gerard Roland JITE ity, because of the difficulty of keeping government expenditures
under control (see Litwack [1993] on Russia in the early 1990s). ...
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Entrepreneurship in China and Russia compared

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S Djankov, Y Qian, G Roland… - Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. “zwu002060321” — 2006/6/27 — page 352 — #1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHINA
AND RUSSIA COMPARED Simeon Djankov World Bank Yingyi Qian University of California
Berkeley Gérard Roland University of California Berkeley Ekaterina Zhuravskaya CEFIR ...
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Pareto-improving economic reforms through dual-track liberalization

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LJ Lau, Y Qian… - Economics Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
... 177–204. Article | PDF (1959 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (17). Lau et al., 1996
Lau, Lawrence J., Yingyi Qian and Gerard Roland, 1986, Gain without pain: An interpretation of
China's dual-track approach to transition, mimeo (Stanford University). ...
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More power to the European Parliament?

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AG Noury… - Economic Policy, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
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Transition as a process of large-scale institutional change

M Dewatripont… - ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY …, 1997 - books.google.com
CHAPTER 7 Transition as a process of large-scale institutional change Mathias Dewatripont
and Gerard Roland INTRODUCTION In his essay on economic policy and the political
process, Avinash Dixit (1994) quotes Alan Blinder's" Murphy's law of economic ...
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Towards micropolitical foundations of public finance

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T Persson, G Roland… - European Economic Review, 1998 - Elsevier
Observed fiscal policy reflects the incentives embedded in political institutions. In this paper,
we illustrate the effects of two general institutional features: separation of powers, which is
common in presidential–congressional political systems, and legislative cohesion, which ...
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Why is China different from Eastern Europe? Perspectives from organization theory

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Y Qian, G Roland… - European Economic Review, 1999 - Elsevier
We draw from recent work in organization theory to explain the differences in reform
strategies between China and Eastern Europe. An experimentation approach was adopted
in China whereas a big bang approach was more favored in Eastern Europe. The ...
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Distributional conflicts, factor mobility, and political integration

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P Bolton… - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
UNIFICATION AND SEPARATION IN EUROPEt Distributional Conflicts, Factor Mobility, and
Political Integration By PATRICK BOLTON AND GERARD ROLAND* Will there be political
integration in Europe? This question has been at the forefront of post- war European history. ...
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Political constraints and the transition experience

G Roland - Lessons from the Economic Transition, Kluwer, 1997 - books.google.com
169 8 Political constraints and the transition experience Gerard Roland Introduction Only a few
years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the introduction of comprehensive economic reform
packages, political backlash is being observed nearly everywhere in Central and Eastern ...
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[CITATION] The political economy of restructuring and privatization in Eastern Europe

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G Roland - European Economic Review, 1993 - econpapers.repec.org
Related works: Working Paper: The Political Economy of Restructuring and Privatization in Eastern
Europe (1992) This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the
same title. ... This site is part of RePEc and all the data displayed here is part of the ...
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[CITATION] Political economy of sequencing tactics in the transition period

G Roland - Systemic Change and Stabilization in Eastern Europe, …, 1991
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The theory of fiscal federalism: what does it mean for Europe?

T Persson, G Roland… - Working Papers, 1996 - ideas.repec.org
More detailed search. The Theory of Fiscal Federalism: What Does it Mean for Europe?
Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics.
Author Info. Torsten Persson Gerard Roland Guido Tabellini. ...
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Regional decentralization and the soft budget constraint: the case of China

Y Qian… - CEPR Discussion Papers, 1994 - ideas.repec.org
The majority of enterprises in China are controlled by local governments at the provincial,
city, county, township and village levels. We study the effect of regional decentralization on
soft budget constraints in these enterprises. We show that fiscal competition under (foreign ...
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Coordinating Changes in M-form and U-form Organizations

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Y Qian, G Roland… - 1999 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
We introduce a method of modelling coordination inside an organization as a process of"
attribute matching." Using this method, we compare organizational forms (U-form and M-
form) in coordinating changes. In our model, organizational forms affect the information ...
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[CITATION] G. Tabellini (2000),”

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[PDF] After enlargement: institutional achievements and prospects in the new Member States

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G Roland - THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES CONVERGENCE …, 2004 - suomenpankki.fi
Page 37. 1 Introduction..... 36 2 The overall achievements of the new Member
States..... 37 3 The role of the EU as an institutional anchor..... ...
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Separation of powers and accountability: Towards a formal approach to comparative politics

T Persson, G Roland… - CEPR Discussion Paper No. …, 1996 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: A political constitution is like an incomplete contract: it spells out a procedure for
making decisions and for delegating power, without specifying the contents of those
decisions. This creates a problem: the appointed policymaker could use this power for his ...
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[BOOK] An incomplete contracts approach to corporate bankruptcy

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E Berglöf, G Roland, EL Von Thadden… - 2000 - hec.unil.ch
Page 1. An Incomplete-Contracts Approach to Corporate Bankruptcy¤ Erik Berglöfy,
Gérard Rolandz, Ernst-Ludwig von Thaddenx This version: September 2000. Abstract
This paper integrates the problem of designing corporate ...
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The long-run impact of bombing Vietnam

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E Miguel… - Journal of Development Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of US bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The
Vietnam War featured the most intense bombing campaign in military history and had
massive humanitarian costs. We use a unique US military dataset containing bombing ...
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[PDF] Democracy in the European Parliament

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S Hix, A Noury… - 2006 - elsa.berkeley.edu
Page 1. FIRST DRAFT Comments Welcome Democracy in the European Parliament by Simon
Hix London School of Economics and Political Science Abdul Noury Free University of Brussels
Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley 11 July 2005 Page 2. ...
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[PDF] Soft budget constraints, transition and financial systems

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M Dewatripont… - ECARE and CEPR. September, 1999 - econ.berkeley.edu
” Soft budget constraints”-a term coined by Janos Kornai1 which means the re… nancing of
loss-making enterprises-were one of the most important incentive problems of socialist
economies. The importance and relevance of the concept of soft budget constraints is now ...
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[CITATION] The EU as an" outside Anchor" for Transition Reforms

E Berglöf, G Roland… - 1998 - Ostekonomiska Institutet
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[CITATION] Politics, Markets and Firms: Transition and Economics

G Roland - 2000 - Cambridge, MA, MIT Press
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[HTML] Corporate Governance and Restructuring: Lessons from Transition Economies

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G Roland - Annual World Bank Conference on Development …, 2001 - books.google.com
This article paints a synthetic picture of corporate governance in transition economies with
an emphasis on its implications for efficiency, taking into account the heterogeneity of
managers' skills, the diversity of firms' restructuring tasks and financial situations, and ...
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[CITATION] Transition and economics: politics, firms, markets

G Roland - 2000 - Cambridge: MIT Press
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[CITATION] Economics of mass privatization

P Bolton… - 15th Panel Meeting of Economic Policy, Lisbon, …, 1992
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Banking Passivity And Regulatory Failure In Emerging Markets: Theory And Evidence From The Czech Republic.

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J Hanousek… - 2001 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
We present a model of bank passivity and regulatory failure. Banks with low equity positions
have more incentives to be passive in liquidating bad loans. We show that they tend to hide
distress from regulatory authorities and are ready to offer a higher rate of interest in order ...
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Gorbachev and the Common European Home: The Convergence Debate Revived?

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G Roland - Kyklos, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Spectacular historical changes are taking place at a breath-taking pace in the Soviet Union
and in Eastern Europe. These changes, the visible Soviet efforts towards rapprochement
with the West, Gorbachev's talk about the 'Common European Home'tend quite naturally ...
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[CITATION] Political economy issues of ownership transformation in Eastern Europe

G Roland - 1994 - Economic Development Institute of …
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Transition and economics: Politics, markets and firms

R Gérard - Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of …, 2000 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 47312674. Transition and economics: Politics, markets and firms.
Roland Gerard. Abstract. The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist
economies is one of the main economic events of the twentieth century. ...
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[CITATION] Institutions and Economic Performance-Fast-moving and Slow-moving Institutions

G Roland - CESifo DICE Report, 2004 - econpapers.repec.org
By Gérard Roland; Institutions and Economic Performance -
Fast-moving and Slow-moving Institutions.
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

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Y Gorodnichenko… - 2010 - nber.org
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the
dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to
more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an ...
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[BOOK] The Economics of Mass Privatization: Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland

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P Bolton… - 1992 - gsb.columbia.edu
Page 1. THE ECONOMICS OF MASS PRIVATIZATION: Czechoslovakia, East
Germany, Hungary and Poland by Patrick Bolton and Gérard Roland Discussion
Paper No. 155 LSE FINANCIAL MARKETS GROUP DISCUSSION ...
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Investment growth fluctuations in the Soviet Union: An econometric analysis

G Roland - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper investigates the determinants of overall investment growth in the Soviet
Union by means of an econometric analysis using data for 1959–1982. Theory suggests that
investment growth responds to structural pressures toward high growth and to the ...
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Market socialism and the managerial labour market

G Roland… - CEPR Discussion Papers, 1992 - ideas.repec.org
Downloadable (with restrictions)! This paper presents a simple ratchet model. The ratchet effect,
and the inability of the government to precommit credibly to given incentive schemes, are related
to the fact that the government has monopsony power over managers, as is the case ...
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Voting patterns and alliance formation in the European Parliament

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S Hix, A Noury, G Roland - … of the royal …, 2009 - rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org
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[CITATION] From Regatta to Big Bang? The Impact of EU Accession Strategy on Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe

E Berglof… - International Monetary Fund. Washington, DC …, 2000
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[PDF] What Makes an Entrepreneur?

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S Djankov, Y Qian, G Roland… - International Differences …, 2008 - wiki.acs.nmu.edu
... Economic Development, The Free Press. Djankov, Simeon, Edward Miguel, Yingyi Qian, Gerard
Roland, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (2005). “Who Are Russia's Entrepreneurs?” Journal of the ...
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[CITATION] Transition and Economics: Politics

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Page 1. 90 Post-Soviet Affairs, 2006, 22, 1, pp. 90–98. Copyright © 2006 by VH
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[BOOK] Privatization: successes and failures

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Page 1. I VAT IZ AT 10 I SSES AND FAIL Gerard Roland Editor Foreword by Joseph
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TITLES PUBLISHED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS ...
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[BOOK] Optimal debt design and the role of bankruptcy

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Page 1. Optimal Debt Design and the Role of Bankruptcy ErnstrLudwig von Thadden|, Erik
Berglöf}, Gérard Roland{, August 2003 Abstract This paper integrates the problem of designing
corporate bankr ruptcy rules into a theory of optimal debt structure. ...
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[CITATION] Corporate Governance and Transition Economies: Lessons from Transition

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M Castanheira… - 1997 - papers.ssrn.com
The paper addresses the issue of the optimal speed of economy-wide restructuring from a
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G Roland - CEPR Discussion Papers, 1992 - ideas.repec.org
Downloadable (with restrictions)! This paper analyses the political economy of transition in the
Soviet Union since Perestroika. It is argued that no major sequencing errors were made and
that important steps were taken in the direction of democratization and the introduction of a ...
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[CITATION] Economie politique du système soviétique

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[CITATION] Understanding the European Parliament: Party Cohesion and Competition, 1979-2001

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[BOOK] Colombia's electoral and party system: Proposals for reforms

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Page 1. 1 COLOMBIA'S ELECTORAL AND PARTY SYSTEM: PROPOSALS FOR
REFORMS. ∗ By Gérard Roland and Juan Gonzalo Zapata Final draft. June 2000 ∗
We thank Miguel Garcia, Alejandra Corchuelo and Xavier ...
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[CITATION] The economics of transition: the fifth Nobel Symposium in economics

E Berglöf… - 2007 - Palgrave Macmillan
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[PDF] What makes a successful entrepreneur? Evidence from Brazil

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Which Dimensions of Culture Matter for Long-Run Growth?

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Abstract: We present empirical evidence that, among a variety of cultural dimensions, the
individualismcollectivism dimension, based on Hofstede's (2001) data, is the most important
and robustly significant effect of culture on long run growth. Other dimensions that have a ...
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Page 1. FAST-MOVING AND SLOW-MOVING INSTITUTIONS GÉRARD ROLAND*
Understanding the conditions for successful economic growth and development
is becom- ing an increasingly central question in economics. ...
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Entrepreneurship: First Results from Russia Simeon Djankov* Edward Miguel Yingyi
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Private and public ownership in economic theory

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One of the major economic events of the end of the twentieth centurywas the wave of
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mass privatization experiences in Russia and other transition countries. To the outsider, it ...
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The Ratchet effect and the planner's expectations

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... North-Holland THE RATCHET EFFECT AND THE PLANNER'S EXPECTATIONS* Gerard ROLAND
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[CITATION] Optimal Sale of Assets: the Role of Noncash Bids

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