Economics of Transition

Understanding South Africa's economic puzzles
Dani Rodrik

The real effect of financial crises in the European transition economies
Davide Furceri, Aleksandra Zdzienicka

The great transformation of Central Eastern Europe
János Kornai

(Most downloaded articles in 2011.)

Are private banks more efficient than public banks?
Alexei Karas, Koen Schoors, Laurent Weill

Foreign bank entry, bank efficiency and market power in Central and Eastern European Countries
Tigran Poghosyan, Arsen Poghosyan

Politics and privatization in Central and Eastern Europe
Christian Bjornskov, Niklas Potrafke

(Most cited articles published in 2010 and 2011.)

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2013:
Volume 21, Issue 2:
Did support for economic and political reforms increase during the post-communist transition, and if so, why?
Riccardo Rovelli and Anzelika Zaiceva
Volume 21, Issue 1:
New! 'Perspectives on Transition and Institutions' articles
The end of economic transition
Lessons for future reformers and students of reform
Konstantin Sonin
Towards a new transition economics
Comments on Konstantin Sonin's 'The End of Economic Transition'
Katharina Pistor

2012:
Volume 20, Issue 4:
New! 'Perspectives on Transition and Institutions' article:
Centralisation and the capitalist market economy
János Kornai
Volume 20, Issue 3:
Foreign direct investment under a weak rule of law : Theory and evidence from China
Xiaozu Wang, Lixin Colin Xu and Tian Zhu
Volume 20, Issue 2:
Is the effect really so large? Firm-level evidence on the role of FDI in a transition economy
Jan Hagemejer, Joanna Tyrowicz
Volume 20, Issue 1:
The Russian–Ukrainian earnings divide
Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann