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Russia: An Abnormal Country [PDF]
Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman recently rendered a summary verdict on the post Soviet Russian transition experience finding that the Federation had become a normal country with the west's assistance, and predicting that it would liberalize and ...
Steven Rosefielde
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Inferring alternative ecosystem states with field survey data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Many ecosystems potentially exhibit alternative stable states, where distinct states can coexist under identical environmental conditions. While simulation models have generated key hypotheses in alternative stable states theory, they often rely on scale‐free parameters disconnected from real ecosystems.
Ning Chen +10 more
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Ethical Leadership in Transition: A Generational Divide in a Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Journal of Eurasian StudiesThere is limited research on understanding the generational differences in leadership perspectives. These differences lead to misunderstandings between leaders and stakeholders within business contexts, especially regarding ethics in leadership. With the
Jason E. Lewis
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims The intentional use of psychoactive substances to enhance sexual experiences, known as chemsex, is associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, psychological distress and social isolation among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).
Nikolay Lunchenkov +3 more
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Living Standards During Transition to a Market Economy: The Kyrgyz Republic in 1993 and 1996 [PDF]
Household survey data from the Kyrgyz Republic are used to analyse changes in the determinants of household expenditure during the transition from central planning.
Richard Pomfret, Kathryn H. Anderson
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 131-159, March 2025.Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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