Home grown or imported? initial conditions, external anchors and the determinants of institutional reform in the transition economies

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 520, 2007, Pages 858-881

  Di Tommaso, Maria L ^a,b,c   Raiser, Martin ^a,b,c   Weeks, Melvyn ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; LIBERALIZATION; PANEL DATA; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 34250023374     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02053.x     Document Type: Article

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