This article reviews the role of the state in the development of the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe. Among those countries Poland is today perceived as the leader as it was the only EU economy that survived the crisis without recession. In this study we show that the role of...

In this paper we examine the determinants of ex-ante state capture analyzing all the legal acts that have been passed in the period 1990-2011 in Poland. We find that during this the majority of legal acts were passed with the aim to satisfy the interest of particular groups. Furthermore, the...