Economic reforms and constitutional transition

Annals of Economics and Finance

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 423-479

  Sachs, Jeffrey ^a   Woo, Wing Thye ^b   Yang, Xiaokai ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutional economics; Divison of labor; Dual track apporach; Gradualism; Inframarginal analysis; Shock therapy; State opportunism; Transition economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964420804     PISSN: 15297373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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