The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed...

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that,...

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of...

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central Asia as the...

The effectiveness of NATO conditionality for institutional reforms is highly controversial. Some papers argue that any effect this...

We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a limiting factor...

This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general equilibrium...

This paper analyses the transformative power of NATO accession that gains in importance due to the enlargement fatigue of the EU, the...

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank...

Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral...

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper, we propose...

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run Dutch disease effects of public...

This paper analyses potential internal and external determinants of institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance...

This paper provides a computable general equilibrium analysis of the medium to long-run impact of FDI inflows on poverty and income...

This paper uses a Markov regime-switching model to assess the vulnerability of a series of Central and Eastern European countries...

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation...

Institutional development in new and potential member countries determines the success of both the catching-up of developing European...

In this paper, a real-financial CGE model is employed for Bolivia to simulate the macroeconomic and distributional effects of exchange...