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Lectures 1-4
Lecture 5-8
Lecture 9-10
Lecture 11-13
Case Studies
Other References

Syllabus  for The Economic Development in Post-Communist Countries: Transition as Globalization.

 Lectures 1-4: Speed of reform and economic performance: the role of economic policies and initial conditions (7)

• Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, Alan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev. " Circumstances and Choice: the Role of Initial Conditions and Policies in Transition Economies", World Bank Working Paper Series No. 1866, December 1997.
• Sharuk Mukand and Dani Rodrik. " In search of the holy grain: policy convergence, experimentation and economic performance."
• Jan Fidrmuc, " Economic reform, democracy and growth during post communist transition", European Journal of Political Economy, pp. 583-604, 2003.
• Timothy Frye, " The Perils of Polarization", World Politics, April 2002.
• Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg, " Do democratic transition produce bad economic outcomes."
• Christopher Gerry and Tomas Mickiewicz, " Inequality, fiscal capacity and the political regime: lessons from the Post-Communist transition."
• Elisabetta Francetti, Tatiana Lysenko and Peter Sunfey, " Reforms and growth in transition: re-examining the evidence", Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 421-445, 2006.
• Anders Aslund and Nazgul Jenish,  The Eurasian Growth Paradox. Institute for International Economics Working Paper 06-5. Washington, D.C. June 2006.

  Lectures 5-8:  Inequality, governance and social effects of transition (6)

• Branko Milanovic, " Explaining the Increase in Inequality during the Transition", Economics of Transition, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 299-341, 1999.
• Karla Hoff, Shale Horowitz and Branko Milanovic, " Transition from Communism: Political Alternation as a Restraint on Investing in Influence", mimeo.
• Oleksiy Ivaschenko, " Growth and inequality: evidence from transitional economies". Published in Theory and policy implications, pp. 155-98. CESifo Seminar Series, Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003.
• Daniel Triesman, " Postcommunist Corruption", mimeo. 2001.
• Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni, " Lobbying, corruption and political influence in transition countries." 2005.
• Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky, " The evolution of personal wealth in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe", paper presented at the WIDER conference in Helsinki, May 6, 2006.
• Mamta Murthi and Erwin R. Tiongson, "Attitudes to Equality: the "Socialist Legacy" revisited". 2008.
• Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado, "Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005. 2008.
• Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, "(Un)Happiness in Transtion".2007

  Lectures 9-10:  Transition in Russia and China: the two antipodes (4)

• Robert C. Allen, "The rise and decline of the Soviet economy", Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2001.
• Shleifer, Andrei and David Treisman, " A normal country", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 83, pp. 20-38, 2004.
• Rosefielde, Steven, " Russia: An Abnormal Country", The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3-16, 2005.
• James K. Galbraith and Jaqing Lu, " Sustainable development and the Open-door policy in China", A Council on Foreign Relations Paper.
• Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, " Whither Russia? A Review of Andrei Shleifer", CEFIR at the New Economic School and CEPR.

 Lectures 11-13:  Transition, the Washington Consensus and its Critics (6)

• Dani Rodrik, " Rethinking growth policies in the developing world". October 2004.
• Stenley Fischer, " Globalization and its Challenges", Ely Lecture delivered at the American Economic Association meetings in Washington, D.C., January 3, 2003. Forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
• Joseph Stiglitz, " More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving Toward the post-Washington Consensus", The 1998 WIDER Annual Lecture, 1998.
• Thomas Lenke, " The birth of bio-politics: Michel Foucault's lecture at the College de France on neo-liberal governmentality", Economy and Society, Vol. 30, pp. 190-207, May 2001.
• Janos Kornai, " Ten years after 'The Road to Free Economy': the author's self-evaluation". 2000.
• Branko Milanovic, Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press (chapter 12), 2005.

 Case Studies

• Alari Purju, " The Political Economy of Privatisation in Estonia." Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Department of Economics, Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh, January 1996.
• S. Scrieciu and P. Winker. " The Romanian Economy in Transition: Developments and Future Prospects." Working Paper 14/2002, International University in Germany, School of Business Administration. Bruchsal, June 2002.
• Danijel Nestic. " Inequality in Croatia in the Period from 1973 to 1998." Occasional Paper No. 17, Institute of Public Finance. April 2003.
• Sergey Vestyuk. " Electoral Cycles in Ukraine." Economics Education and Research Consortium, Russia and CIS. February 2004.
• J. Micklewright, A. Coudouel and S. Marnie. " Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme." IZA Discussion Paper No. 1112. April 2004.
• F. Pastore and A. Verashchagina. " The Distribution of Wages in Belarus." IZA Discussion Paper No. 1140. May 2004.
• Mihails Hazans. " Latvia: Working Too Hard?" University of Latvia and BICEPS. March 2005. A slightly shorter version has been published in the volume "Working and Employment Conditions in New EU Member States - Convergence or Diversity?" ILO-EC, Geneva: ILO, 2005, pp. 161-212.
• "Could The Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?" Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy No. 3305. Max Planck Institute of Economics Group Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, Jena, Germany. August 2006.
• Schrooten, Mechthild. 2006. " Workers' Remittances to Former Soviet States." Discussion Paper Series A No. 476. The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Vecernik, Jiri. 2006. " Evolution or Revolution? Disparities in Earnings and Household Income in the Czech Republic 1988-2002." IES Occasional Paper: 4/2006. Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Prague.

Other References

• Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz,    After the Big Bang: Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies. Why the new property owners did not clamor for a law-based state as naive Coasians thought they would?

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 

• Joseph Stiglitz,  Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes? Corporate Governance Failures in the Transition. 
• Andrew C. Janos,    From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: East Central Europe under Two International Regimes.  Bifurcation of East European countries in two groups, and their inclusion in the system of Western "imperative coordination" (Herrschaftssystem).
• Olivier Blanchard and Michael Kremer,  Disorganization. Blanchard and Kremer show how decline in output during transition results from the break-down of vertically-integrated production models.
• Peter Murrell,  The Transition According to Cambridge, Mass. An early critique of the Big Bang privatization and liberalization strategy.
• Pervalov, Yurii, Ilya Gimadii and Vladimir Dobrodei,    Does privatization improve performance of industrial enterprises? Empirical evidence from Russia.Empirical study of the effects of privatization on the performance of Russian enterprises.
• Nauro Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli,  Growth in Transition: What we know, what we don't and what we should., Journal of Economic Literature, pp. 793-836, September 2002.
• Michael Keane and Eswar Prasad,  Inequality, Transfers, and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland.
• Bernard Black, Reinier Kraakman, and Anna Tarassova, Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?
• Dwight Perkins,  Completing China's Move to the Market. Review of China's reforms up to 1994.
• Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka and Jacek Rostowski,  Whence Reform: A Critique of the Stiglitz Perspective.
• Charles Gore,  The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries.