Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies 1987-2002

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldo..., 1987 - 2002

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Reference ID

WLD_2002_IBGTE_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/kbxx-zx27

Producer(s)

Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven

Collection(s)

Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Nov 20, 2013

Last modified

Apr 26, 2021

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Identification

Survey ID number

WLD_2002_IBGTE_v01_M

Title

Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies 1987-2002

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Albania	ALB
Armenia	ARM
Azerbaijan	AZE
Bulgaria	BGR
Czech Republic	CZE
Estonia	EST
Georgia	GEO
Croatia	HRV
Hungary	HUN
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ
Lithuania	LTU
Latvia	LVA
Moldova	MDA
North Macedonia	MKD
Poland	POL
Russian Federation	RUS
Slovak Republic	SVK
Slovenia	SVN
Tajikistan	TJK
Turkmenistan	TKM
Ukraine	UKR
Czechoslovakia	CSK

Study type

Macroeconomics - Indicators

Abstract

This dataset contains all variables used in the regressions of the paper "Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies". The definition and sources of the different variables are explained in an appendix table of the paper, available as external resources. Please note that the growth data reported in Table 1 do not correspond to the growth data used for the analysis. The actual data used for the analysis are in the dataset. The growth data in Table 1 are from an earlier version of the paper that looked at a shorter sample period.

Kind of Data

Aggregate data [agg]

Scope

Notes

The dataset includes indicators related to:

Socialism
Raw exports
Ethnic fractionalization
CMEA Trade share
Tertiary enrollment
Gas reserves / population
Political Structure and Institution Building - Executive Constraints, Communist share, Liberalization, Privatization
Change in Rule of Law, Change in Corruption, EBRD reform
Monetary growth
Inflation

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven	World Bank

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
1987	2002

Data Access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven. Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies (IBGTE) 1987-2002. Ref. WLD_2002_IBGTE_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [web address] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Development Research Group	World Bank	research@worldbank.org	http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_WLD_2002_IBGTE_v02_M

Date of Metadata Production

2011-03-10

Metadata version

DDI Document version

DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
This version is identical to DDI_WLD_2002_IBGTE_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.