At the point of introducing economic reforms in 1990 aimed at the transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy, Polish agriculture was in a different situation than other branches of the national economy. The paper provides an analyses of the economic transition experienced by the...

The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the authors briefly summarize the results of previous analyses devoted to such issues of relevance as the ownership structure of privatized companies in Poland and how it changed over the course of the 1990s, what factors seemed to have...

The collapse of communism faced Poland and other former Soviet bloc countries with the need for a massive 'institutional refit', as regards both economic and political institutions. This paper describes where some of the key new institutions were derived from (either in the form of transplants...

The paper presents series of medium term economic simulations, evaluating fiscal costs of different EMU entry scenarios for six of the new EU members. Projections cover period of 2004- 2012 and use basic macroeconomic equations in an attempt to assess the value of public debtrelated costs that...