title: What determines the institutional change in transition economies?
abstract: The aim of this study is to explain the determinants of the institutional change that has taken place in the countries of Central-East and Southeast Europe and the former USSR, which constituted quite a homogeneous group at the beginning of the transition period. The paper concentrates on the political and economic institutions in 24 post-communist economies in the period 1989-2014, using four groups of indices: the Freedom House's political freedom measure, the Index of Economic Freedom by the 
journal: Argumenta Oeconomica