Already since the time more than six years ago when the banking and financial crises started which led to the catastrophic expansion of public debt in the main industrial countries, the postulates of public economy and the resulting conclusions drawn in the field of economic policy for the...

The shrinking population during the break-down, adaptation and recovery phase in Estonian social and political development enforces municipal competition among the municipalities. Competition for inhabitants is embedded in regional competition showing horizontal and vertical competition...

The paper analyses Estonian tax structure changes during the last decade and critically assesses the current situation.The country's tax mix is rather unique among EU countries – it has one of the highest proportions of consumption taxes in total taxes and the lowest level of capital and...

Problems associated with the qualitative analysis and quantitative measurement of sustainability, and opportunities for connecting the concept with the methodological basis of development assessment and the essence of the subject that values sustainability are dealed. The goal of article is to...

The objective of this paper is to determine the level of average quality of disclosures made in English by biggest companies listed on Baltic stock exchanges and to analyse it in the context of biggest companies listed on other Central and Eastern European (CEE) and three developed European (EU)...

In order to continue its mission in preparing educated work force needed for supporting implementation of Estonian economic policy, universities need to improve the usage of its scarce resources. We study the expectation and attitudes of academic staff towards performance appraisal and related...

Deutsch Zusammenfassung: Estland gilt als ein Musterland für den erfolgreichen Umbau einer sozialistischen Wirtschaftsordnung zu einer funktionstüchtigen Marktwirtschaft. Aufgrund des positiven Estlandbildes, das einen starken Kontrast zu den Krisengemälden aus südeuropäischen Euro-Ländern...

German Abstract: Während der Wirtschaftskrise müssen die Regierungen vor allem das fundamentale Dilemma zwischen der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Rationalität über­winden. In Krisenzeit fällt es der Regierung aber schwer, gleichzeitig nachhaltige Wirtschaft und politische Popularität...