The overall economic framework, the amount of foreign direct investments, the regulatory context, firm behaviour and the intensity of competition are among the factors that have an impact on a country's export competitiveness. Due to the ever-increasing engagement of firms in export activities,...

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up...

Die Rezession hielt in der Ukraine seit Beginn der Transformation an. Gleichzeitig zeigen Indikatoren für den ordnungspolitischen Transformationsfortschritt, daß die Ukraine zu der Gruppe weniger östlicher Transformationsländer gehört, die einen nur sehr geringen Fortschritt bei der...

Since the inception of transition Ukraine experienced an economic decline. Using indicators for the progress of economic reforms in transition countries, it becomes evident that Ukraine belongs to a very small group of eastern European transition countries that implemented very little economic...

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, den Transformationsprozess einiger mittel- und osteuropäischer Staaten unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter realwirtschaftlicher und monetärer Aspekte zu analysieren, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Visegradländern sowie auf Bulgarien und Rumänien bzw. der...

One of the main tasks of the transition economies is to catch up with the advanced levels of highly developed economies. The lack of social capital is a major impediment to this process, as it does not allow taking advantage of the comparatively high level of human capital in these countries....

The link between the exchange rate regime and macroeconomic performance has always been a debatable issue in international economics. This paper takes a critical look at this debate by focusing on the relative macreoeconomic performance of currency boards against other exchange rate regimes in...