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Mieke Meurs
PhD Program Director and Professor of Economics
Roper Hall, Room 202
Tel: (202) 885-3776
Fax: (202) 885-3790
Email: Click Here
PhD, University of Massachusetts
Research Interests
Recent publications and research examine market development and social outcomes in the transition
economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Field research has been supported by grants from the MacArthur
Foundation, National Council for Soviet and East European Research,
National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation
for work in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland.
Teaching Interests
Recent courses taught include Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and
the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar.
Professional Activities
Member; Executive Board & Finance Committee, National Council for European + East European Research
Member; Editorial Board, Politics + Society
Recent Publications
"The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility in Post-Socialism: Evidence from the Bulgarian Case", World Development 2009, with Thomas Hertz and Sibel Selcuk.
“Forward to the Past? Agricultural Restructuring in Bulgaria,” Mediterrannee (special issue of European Accession of Bulgaria and Romania), with Angel Bogushev, forthcoming.
Decentralisation and Development in Post-Socialism: Local Characteristics and Outcomes in Post-Socialist Bulgaria,” Post-Communist Economies, 2007.
“Market Reform and Infrastructure Development in Transition Economies,” Review of Development Economics, OnlineEarly, August 2007, with Robert M. Feinberg.
‘‘Changing Preschool Enrollments in Post-Socialist Central Asia: Causes and Implications,’’ with Lisa Giddings and Tilahun Temesgen, forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies, 2006.
‘‘Declining Child Care Enrollments in Post Socialism: Causes and Implications in the Bulgarian Case,’’ European Journal of Social Policy, with Lisa Giddings, 16(2) 2006.
‘‘Market Reform, Infrastructure and Exchange Rate Passthrough in Central and Eastern Europe,’’ Post-Communist Economies, 17(1), 2005, with Robert Feinberg.
‘‘De-development in Post-Socialism: Conceptual and Measurement Issues,’’ Politics and Society, 31 (1), 2003, with Raskia Ranasinghe.
‘‘Are Markets Like Mushrooms and Other Neo-Liberal Quandries,’’ Review of Radical Political Economics, 2001.
The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
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