Industrial Competitiveness in East-Central Europe

by Myant, Martin R.

• ISBN13: 9781840640199
• ISBN10: 1840640197
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Author Biography

Martin Myant, Reader in Department of Accounting, Economics and Languages, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK Karel Zeman, Department of the Chief Economist, Czechoslovak Trade Bank, Prague, Czech Republic Vera Rodova, Department of the Chief Economist, Czechoslovak Trade Bank, Prague, Czech Republic Zdenek Soucek, Director of Management Focus, International Consulting Group, Prague, Czech Republic Ruzena Vintrova, Head of Economic-Analytical Laboratory, Czech Statistical Office, Prague, Czech Republic Petr Chvojka, Chief Economist, Czechoslovak Trade Bank, Prague, Czech Republic Karel Ujhazy, Economist, Prague, Czech Republic Richard Outrata, Head of Department of International and Interregional Economics, Foreign Trade and Industrial Policy, Institute of Slovak and World Economics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Frank Fleischer, Research Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany Kurt Hornschild, Head of Department of Industry and Technology, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vi
List of Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	x
Preface	xi
The Tigers of Tomorrow? Structural Change and Economic Growth in East-Central Europe	1	(28)
Martin Myant
Competitiveness in East-Central Europe	29	(23)
Karel Zeman
Vera Rodova
Zdenek Soucek
The Macroeconomics of Structural Transformation	52	(24)
Ruzena Vintrova
Financing Enterprise Restructuring	76	(30)
Petr Chvojka
Investment and Restructuring	106	(19)
Karel Ujhazy
Karel Zeman
Towards a Competitiveness Policy in Slovakia	125	(20)
Richard Outrata
The Transformation of Czech Enterprises	145	(24)
Martin Myant
Innovation and the East German Transformation	169	(18)
Frank Fleischer
Kurt Hornschild
Are the Transformations Complete?	187	(8)
Martin Myant
Index	195