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...

Our paper comes in the course of the New Institutional Economics which emphasises the supremacy of institutional reforms on the economic framework. Recently, measures and proxies notions of 'governance' and 'institutions' have stimulated empirical research in economics and political science. The...

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...

Our paper comes in the course of the New Institutional Economics which emphasises the supremacy of institutional reforms on the economic framework. Recently, measures and proxies notions of 'governance' and 'institutions' have stimulated empirical research in economics and political science. The...

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...