TY - BOOK AU - Berglöf,Erik AU - Roland,Gérard ED - Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. TI - The economics of transition: the fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics SN - 1403996393 (cloth) AV - HC59.15 .E2785 2007 U1 - 338.9/ECO PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke [England], New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Economic history KW - 1990- KW - Post-communism KW - Economic aspects KW - Economics KW - Political aspects N1 - "Nobel Symposia; SITE."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction : economics and transition / Erik Berglöf and Gérard Roland -- Soft budget constraint theories : from centralization to the market / Eric Maskin and Chenggang Xu -- When does privatization work? The impact of private ownership on corporate performance in the transition economies / Roman Frydman, Cheryl Gray, Marek Hessel and Andrzej Rapaczynski -- Disorganization and financial collapse / Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer -- Transition with labor supply / Tito Boeri -- The evolution of output in transition economies : explaining the differences / Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Ratna Sahay and Jeromin Zettelmeyer -- Property rights and finance / Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff -- Courts and relational contracts / Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff -- Dodging the grabbing hand : the determinants of unofficial activity in 69 countries / Eric Friedman, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton -- Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after communism / Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff -- The causes of corruption : a cross-national study / Daniel Treisman -- Incentives to provide local public goods : fiscal federalism, Russian style / Ekaterina V. Zhuravskaya -- Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives : federalism, Chinese style / Hehui Jin, Yingyi Qian and Barry R. Weingast -- The razor's edge : distortions and incremental reform in the People's Republic of China / Alwyn Young -- Coordinating reforms in transition economies / Yingyi Qian, Gerard Roland and Chenggang Xu UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006047489-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006047489-t.html ER -