Identity and the Effect of Ideational and Ideological Preferences on Monetary and Macroeconomic Policy: An Examination of the Former Eastern Bloc Countries1 Paper Presented to the Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Following the fall of communism, many expected that there would be a continuing convergence of economic policies amongst the post-communist Eastern European states (e.g., Hansson and Sachs, 1992). Since then, however, there has been a wide divergence in the economic orientations of the post-communist states, particularly in regards to monetary policy. Nowhere were these variances better illustrated than with the two historic accessions in 2004 and 2007 of large numbers of the post-communist Eastern European states to the European Union (EU). When examining the monetary policies of the post-communist states of Eastern Europe, four distinct groupings have emerged. The first, represented by Estonia and Czech Republic, has consistently made fundamental macroeconomic reforms to orient their monetary policies closer to Western Europe, which greatly facilitated each ones accession to the EU, and has put both on track to eventually meet EMU requirements. Relative to other post-communist states, Estonia and Czech Republic have been on the leading edge in terms of enhancing central bank independence, lowering inflation, and reducing government deficits. A second group, represented by Romania, which was initially slow in instituting macroeconomic reforms, has more recently increased its rate of monetary policy adjustments to
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".