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Institutions and Economic Reforms

Review of Economics and Institutions

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Title Institutions and Economic Reforms
 
Creator Carlin, Wendy; University College London and CEPR
 
Subject
economic reforms, transition, property rights, contracting institutions, Currency Reform
P11, P14, P21
 
Description Recent studies in economic development seek to establish that institutional quality is an important determinant of long-run living standards. Moreover, it appears that property rights institutions are causal for development whereas contracting institutions affect the nature of financial intermediation in the economy. I use these results to explore two questions. If property rights institutions matter for economic growth, can they help explain large-scale reform surprises? The reforms in Western Germany in 1948 are viewed as 'miraculous' whereas those in the early 1990s in the former Soviet transition economies are viewed as disappointing. I argue that the former had a limited task because they only had to restore existing property rights institutions whereas the latter had to create new ones and find new owners for assets. The second question is whether the persistence of variety in contracting institutions across countries that have developed successfully has implications for the design of financial and corporate governance reforms.
 
Publisher University of Perugia
 
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Date 2010-04-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument
 
Identifier http://www.rei.unipg.it/rei/article/view/2
10.5202/rei.v1i1.2
 
Source Review of Economics and Institutions; Vol 1, No 1 (2010)
2038-1379
2038-1344
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.rei.unipg.it/rei/article/view/2/1
http://www.rei.unipg.it/rei/article/view/2/7
 
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