Tuesday - Thursday 9:30 - 11
308 LeConte

Instructor: GÉRARD ROLAND
Office: 627 Evans Hall

Economics Department
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
510-642-0822

Econometrics Laboratory

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groland@econ.berkeley.edu

Lecture Notes

• Overview of Economics of Transition: Eastern Europe [PDF]
• I. The Socialist Economy
  1. Objectives and Instruments of Central Planning [PDF]
  2. Managerial Incentives [PDF]
  3. Economic Behavior Under Shortage [PDF]
  4. Worker Behavior [PDF]
  5. Economic Coordination [PDF]
• II. Transition
  1. Tasks of Transition
  2. Stylized Facts of Transition
  3. Political Economy of Transition
  4. Liberalization
  5. Explaining the Output Fall
  6. Institutions and Differences in Performance
  7. Privatization and Restructuring
  8. Accession to the European Union
  9. Lessons from 10 Years of Transition

• Suggested review questions for the mid-term
• Suggested review questions for the final exam