Transition as a process of large-scale institutional change

Economics of Transition

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-30

  Dewatripont, Mathias ^a   Roland, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aggregate uncertainty; Complementarities; Institutional change; Political constraints; Reform sequencing; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040000121     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.1996.tb00159.x     Document Type: Article

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