The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive analysis of the shock therapy model of transition. As such the model requires an analysis of what I define as the primary elements: economic analysis, definition of a good society, speed, political structure, ideological structure and initial...

The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive analysis of the shock therapy model of transition. As such the model requires an analysis of what I define as the primary elements: economic analysis, definition of a good society, speed, political structure, ideological structure and initial...

In our brief study, we try to address one of these market inefficiencies, by studying the Indian retail sector, which has posed as a structural defect causing a political battle rather than an economic one. We take a historical outlook to the contribution of retail and wholesale sector in our...

This study is a synthesis of the authors' research on the application of the Investment Development Path (IDP) concept to Poland. The IDP is investigated from the point of view of its general trajectory as well as its geographic and industry/sector idiosyncrasies. Collected data cover a time...

This paper investigates the strategic role of Kazakhstan's development institutions in programmes for economic diversification, based on the state target of strengthening national competitiveness. The author analyses the primary challenge for the state from the long-term perspective: mechanisms...

We develop a two-country stochastic growth model with production, relative price and sovereign default risks. Domestic production and relative price volatilities cause more fluctuations in the agents' portfolio decisions than the volatility of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) production does....

This paper examines persistent concerns that trade openness in South-East Europe is much less advanced than it was for the former CEECs in the mid to late 1990s. Using econometric tests, we find that trade patterns appear to remain problematic. Second, partial equilibrium simulations are used to...

This study is a synthesis of the authors' research on the application of the Investment Development Path (IDP) concept to Poland. The IDP is investigated from the point of view of its general trajectory as well as its geographic and industry/sector idiosyncrasies. Collected data cover a time...

This paper investigates the strategic role of Kazakhstan's development institutions in programmes for economic diversification, based on the state target of strengthening national competitiveness. The author analyses the primary challenge for the state from the long-term perspective: mechanisms...

We develop a two-country stochastic growth model with production, relative price and sovereign default risks. Domestic production and relative price volatilities cause more fluctuations in the agents' portfolio decisions than the volatility of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) production does....