Wissenschaftliche Literatur Economic Reform

Romana Careja

Policy Coherence and EconomicReforms in Central and Eastern Europe

The Great Transformation

POLITICA – Schriftenreihe zur politischen Wissenschaft

Starting from the observation that some of the East European post-socialist governments produced coherent reform policies which successfully transformed their countries’ economies into capitalist ones, while others lingered behind muddling through half hearted reforms, this paper takes a closer look at how these governments simultaneously developed the banking sector and the large scale privatization. The guiding question of the project is: Why do some governments of CEE produce coherent reforms of banking sector and large scale privatization, while others were less…

Alper Selman Tengüz

Strategies of the State towards the Informal Economy

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Around the world developed and developing economies alike are struggling with the persisting nature of the informal economy. The policy advice given to politicians by development economists today is rather generic with no regard to country-specific factors. This research develops a policy advice framework for governments to improve the relevance of policy actions towards the Informal Economy. The basic paradigm is that the informal economy is not to be regarded as a nuisance, a growth break, or just as a social safety net. Rather it is a telling symptom of…