Publications

Monographs:

Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen (ed.) (2013), Institutional Reform in Central Asia. Politico-Economic Challenges. Central Asian Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Manuel Stark (2012), The Emergence of Developmental States from a New Institutionalist Perspective: A Comparative Analysis of East Asia and Central Asia. Dissertation: summa cum laude Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Joachim Ahrens, Rolf Caspers, Janina Weingarth (eds.) (2011), Good Governance in the 21st Century: Conflict, Institutional Change and Development in the Era of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Peer Reviewed Papers:

Joachim Ahrens and Manuel Stark, Emulating East Asian Developmental States? The Institutional Foundations of Economic Transition in Central Asia, currently under review at: Critique Internationale.

Joachim Ahrens (2010), The politico-institutional foundation of economic transition in Central Asia: Lessons from China. Economic and Environmental Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2010.

Joachim Ahrens and Jost Platje (eds.), Sustainability of economic and institutional change in Central Asia, Economic and Environmental Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2010.

Manuel Stark (2010), The East Asian developmental state as a reference model for transition economies in Central Asia – an analysis of institutional arrangements and exogeneous constraints, in: Economic and Environmental Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 2.

Articles and Working Paper:

Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen (2013), Economic Transition and Institutional Change in Central Asia. In: J. Ahrens and H.W. Hoen (eds.), Institutional Reform in Central Asia. Politico-Economic Challenges. Central Asian Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Inna Melnykovska (2013), Government Activism in Kazakhstan: Definition, Taxonomy, Classification, and Stocktaking of Government Interventions and Industrial Policy (work in progress).

Christian Timm (2012), Bringing uncertainty back in – zur Untersuchung nicht-demokratischer Regime. Conference Paper for JOE Conference 2012.

Christian Timm (2012), A libertarian developmental state? Georgia’s economic policy after the Rose Revolution, PFH-Working Paper, to submit to: Journal Problems of Economic Transition.

Alexander Wolters (2012), Islamic Finance in the States of Central Asia: Strategies, Institutions, First Experiences, PFH-Working Paper.

Joachim Ahrens and Manuel Stark (2012), Economic reform and institutional change in Central Asia: towards a new model of the developmental state? PFH- Working Paper 2012–5, Göttingen 2012.

Unabhängige Organisationen in autoritären Regimes: Widerspruch in sich oder effektives Instrument von Developmental States? PFH- Working Paper 2012–9, Göttingen 2012.

Joachim Ahrens and Patrick Jünemann (2012), Transitional institutions, institutional complementarities and economic performance in China. In: B. Seliger et al. (eds), Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft als Vorbild in internationalen Krisen. Ordnungspolitische Dialoge 3. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2012; earlier published as a working paper in: W. Pascha et al. (eds.), Institutional Foundations of Innovation and Competitiveness in East Asia, Duisburg Working Papers on East Asian Studies, No. 72/2007.

Joachim Ahrens (2011), Governance, Development, and Institutional Change in Times of Globalization. In: J. Ahrens et al. (eds.), Good Governance in the 21st Century: Conflict, Institutional Change and Development in the Era of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Joachim Ahrens (2011), Small Countries – Useful Lessons; Governance in EU Accession Countries and in East Asia. In: J. Ahrens et al. (eds.), Good Governance in the 21st Century: Conflict, Institutional Change and Development in the Era of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Joachim Ahrens and Patrick Jünemann (2011), Adaptive efficiency and pragmatic flexibility: characteristics of institutional change in capitalism, Chinese-style. In: W. Pascha et al. (eds.), Institutional Variety in East Asia. Formal and Informal Patterns of Coordination, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Joachim Ahrens, Manuel Stark, Roman Vakulchuk (2010), Credible commitment, institutions, and policy reform: a comparative institutional view of public-governance reform in Central and East Asia, unpublished Manuscript, PFH Göttingen.

Joachim Ahrens (2010), Governance, institutioneller Wandel und Wirtschaftspolitik. In. R. Ohr (Hg.), Governance in der Wirtschaftspolitik. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Gerhard Toews and Joachim Ahrens (2010), Varieties of Capitalism in Developed and in Transition Countries. An empirical analysis of economic convergence in OECD and Post-Soviet Countries, unpublished Manuscript, PFH Göttingen.