Political constraints and economic reform: Empirical evidence from the post-communist transition in the 1990s

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 446-466

  Kim, Byung Yeon ^a   Pirttilä, Jukka ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b LABOUR INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel models; Economic reform; Political constraints; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750619062     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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