SHAPING THE INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE (1994)
Certain types of laws and institutions shape economic behavior in market economies. In Eastern Europe these general rules and market institutions are often nonexistent, and a major problem is to...
The Polish transformation: programme and progress (1990)
Beksiak, Janusz, Gruszecki, Tomasz, Jedraszczyk, Aleksander, Winiecki, Jan, Blanchard, Olivier, Layard, Richard, ...
The Polish transformation: programme and progress (1990)
Beksiak, Janusz, Gruszecki, Tomasz, Jedraszczyk, Aleksander, Winiecki, Jan, Blanchard, Olivier, Layard, Richard, ...
WHY ECONOMIC REFORMS FAIL IN THE SOVIET SYSTEM--A PROPERTY RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH (1990)
Why do economic reforms fail in Soviet-type systems despite the obvious interest of ruling groups in improving the performance of their ailing economies? The author applies a property...
Determinants of catching up or falling behind: interaction of formal and informal institutions
The article looks from an institutional perspective at the process of catching up by poorer countries with the level of development already achieved by the richer ones. The author stresses that...
An Inquiry into the Early Drastic Fall of Output in Post-communist Transition: an Unsolved Puzzle
The early (drastic) output fall has been the major bone of contention among theorists in the early years of transition. This author looks at the issue from the vantage point of the communist economic...
Solving Foreign Trade Puzzles in Post-Communist Transition
This article deals with the foreign trade of East-Central European countries in post-communist transition. It is primarily concerned with explaining certain early transition developments, unexpected...
The central theme of this paper is the role of the new, entrepreneurial private sector, established after the fall of communism, in output recovery, and, more generally, in economic expansion of...
The central theme of this article is the role of the new, entrepreneurial private sector, established following the fall of communism, in output recovery, and, more generally, in economic expansion...
Matthias Lücke, Rainer Schweickert, Heiko Körner, Thomas Ziesemer, Stefanie Bessin, Jan Winiecki, ...
Jörg-Volker Schrader, Richard Pomfret, Peter Nunnenkamp, Jürgen Stehn, Erich Gundlach, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Shaping the Institutional Infrastructure.
Certainly types of laws and institutions shape economic behavior in market economies. In Eastern Europe, these general rules and market institutions are often nonexistent and a major problem is to...
Why Economic Reforms Fail in the Soviet System--A Property Rights-Based Approach.
Why do economic reforms fail in Soviet-type systems despite the obvious interest of ruling groups in improving the performance of their ailing economies? The author applies a property-rights-based...
Employment and unemployment in transition: the legacy of the communist past
This article deals with a specific legacy, concerning the labour force, with which transition countries have been burdened while instituting systemic change. The majority of authors have concentrated...