Microeconomic Change in Central and East Europe

by Leonard, Carol S.

• ISBN13: 9780333761090
• ISBN10: 033376109X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection covers the early postcommunist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. It deals with a large range of still critical issues and presents new data resources. Experts, including prominent Central and East European, British, and North American scholars, emphasize country conditions that accounted for difficulties in implementing the sweeping reforms by which markets were introduced in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Separate sections cover finance, enterprise restructuring, multi-sectoral modeling, trade, and defense conversion.

Author Biography

Carol S. Leonard is University Lecturer, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Charts	ix
General Editor's Introduction	xiii
Notes on the Contributors	xvii
Acknowledgements	xix
Transition: Midway	1	(20)
Carol Scott Leonard
Part I Sectors and Regions
Energy and Environment in the Czech Republic and Poland	21	(18)
John M. Kramer
Privatisation of the Russian Defence Complex: Solution or Source of Conflict?	39	(20)
Simone Schwanitz
Without Work, But Not Unemployed: Defence Conversion in Russia and its Socio-economic Consequences	59	(7)
Nicola A. Mogel
CGE Models for Economic Policy Analysis	66	(22)
Erno Zalai
Constantin Ciupagea
Ana Voicu
Applying Simple Spreadsheet-based CGE models to Economic Policy During the Transition: A Bulgarian Case Study	88	(27)
Michael L. Wyzan
Part II Privatisation and Enterprise Behaviour
Privatisation in the Czech Republic: Resulting Ownership Structures and Emerging Capital Markets	115	(35)
Michal Mejstrik
Anton Marcincin
Radek Lastovicka
Attitudinal Factors and Transformation of the Russian Enterprise	150	(30)
Joan DeBardeleben
Russian Industrial Enterprises in Transition: A Behavioural Model and Determinants	180	(24)
Tatiana Dolgopiatova
Employee Ownership and Enterprise Behaviour: Evidence from Poland's Privatisation by Liquidation	204	(29)
Iraj Hashi
The Banking Sector and the Financing of Enterprises in Poland	233	(22)
Krystyna Szymkiewicz
Part III Trade and Markets
Use of Competitive Parameters in Russian Markets	255	(22)
Uolevi Lehtinen
Foreign Assistance in the Economic Transformation of Poland	277	(14)
Teresa Bylka
Bibliography	291	(22)
Index	313