Here you can find selected lecture notes for the Economics of Transition.
Be careful in using these notes. They are no substitute for attending
lectures. Nor are they finished products. Note that these materials are
in PDF format. To read them you need the Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded
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Here is the lecture note on China.
Here is the lecture noteon privatization.
Here is the lecture note on adjustment.
Here is the start of my lectures on
price liberalization
Here is the start of my lectures on
liberalization
Here is a command
economy lecture in power point.
Here are the slides for my introduction
to transition lecture.
Here are some slides related to Russia
and its future.
2. Here is a recently revised lecture on the Legacies of Central Planning. This lecture is now called Lecture Note on the Command System. It will probably be updated several times in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. It is a bit long and somewhat repetitive. I noticed (February 15) that some of the notation was not readable in the version that was posted (amazingly, nobody told me which suggests that nobody is reading these notes). I fixed that problem with the current version.
3. Here is a recently
revised lecture (February 7, 2006) on the collapse
of central planning. It is incomplete, but has some useful material
I hope.
4. Here is a lecture note on liberalization. The last part is quite sketchy.
3. Click here to find a lecture note on the specific factors model applied to the restructuring problem.
4. I have revised again (March 2005) and updated my Lecture Note on Price Liberalization. There is also some discussion on external liberalization.
5. Here is an updated
and revised lecture note on measurement aspects of the output
fall. This version has a more complete section on good and bad output.
6. Here is a lecture note onadjustment and the specific factor model. It is revised and updated from what appeared here before. I still wish it were better organized.
7. Here is a lecture note on disorganization.
8. You may also want to check out my paper with Clifford Gaddy on How to Think About the Output Fall. This paper discusses the Camellia effect.
9. Here is a lecture note on privatization. It is kind of rough in some parts.
10. Here
is a newer version of the revised lecture note on China.
It is a bit technical in spots.
11. Here is lecture
note on r-d space
and restructuring. A
lot of this is better explained in the book, of course. It does include
the Kevin Brown effect.
11. Here is a lecture on the role of government collapse in transition. It is spotty.
12. Here is a lecture note on privatization and restructuring. A lot of it is in the previous note. Some new parts as well (mostly on restructuring).