Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms
Gérard Roland, 2000,
Comparative Institutional Analysis Series,
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Contents
Acknowledgments    xiii
Introduction: Transition and Economics    xvii
1  Understanding Transition    1
2  The Politics of Reforms under Uncertainty    25
3  Political Constraints without Uncertainty    67
4  The Political Economy of Mass Privatization    85
5  The Optimal Speed of Sectoral Reallocation    109
6  Speed and Methods of Price Liberalization    131
7  Liberalization and the Output Fall    153
8  Government Collapse and Economic Performance    171
9  Solving the Incentive Problems Inherited from Socialism    197
10  Comparing Policies of Privatization and Restructuring    229
11  Incentives within Government Bureaucracy    265
12  The Soft Budget Constraint and Financial Transition    287
13  Synthesizing Lessons from Transition    327
References    347
Author Index    375
Subject Index    379