We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...

In their privatization programs, transition governments have frequently given away shares (so-called 'mass privatization'), while maintaining significant minority ownership. We explain the rationality of this behavior for an expected net-revenue maximizing government. Our argument rests on a...

The paper explores the determination of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Balkan transition economies – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. Detailed FDI inflows to Southeast Europe (SEE) are analyzed to determine the main...

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...

1. The degree of monopoly in the Kaldor-Mirrlees growth model -- 2. Capitalism, socialism and steady growth -- 3. Introductory essay to V. K. Dmitriev -- 4. Michal Kalecki's contributions to the theory and practice of socialist planning -- 5. Kalecki and Keynes revisited -- 6. Socialism on earth...

This book gives the results from the international research project "State Enterprise Restructuring in Bulgaria, Romania and Albania" financed by ACE Programme of European Union. The research covers firms from three countries from South Eastern Europe for which enough information is still...