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The article offers essential reflections on ten years of experience with the transformation of the former centrally planned economies into free market economies. Although there were large differences among individual transition countries, all of them faced similar challenges early in the 1990s....
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The privatization in transition countries generated distorsions. Among the most dangerous distorsions are those … introduced by a non legal or criminal privatization of management with the help of former or new informal networks connecting …
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This paper examines the two crucial factors in Czech banking policy that explain why Czech banks were not an effective support for economic restructuring in the nineties. These factors are: the subsistence of unrestructured, non-viable firms that undermined development of banks' debt monitoring...
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The scarcity of educated and experienced managers and the path dependency influence the corporate governance of the post-communist enterprises. Using the standard microeconomic tools, the paper investigates the possible similarities between the old "command economy management" and the behavior...
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This article focuses on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It starts with the approach to SMEs at the early stages of economic transformation aiming at the reestablishment of a market economy...
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contracts that negatively affected the contents of privatization, seriously biasedcorporate governance and led to the poor …
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This research investigates the emergence of stock market in the Czech Republic. We use Czech mass privatization as an … if certain pre-privatization and privatization characteristics of the companies had been taken into account when deciding … which companies to place on the stock exchange for public trading following the mass privatization. This result has …
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privatization process. A simple model which includes a supplier of services and retail firms is presented and applied to study the … effects of various sequences of privatization. Our findings indicate that privatizing the supplier first is always at least as …
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From a macroeconomic standpoint, the Czech Republic has been viewed as a leading example of successful transformation from a state owned to a privatized economy. Yet at the firm and industry levels, the transformation process is still in its early stages. This article focuses on the...
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emphasis on the effects of hard budget constraints and privatization. That, however, provides a limited view of the choices … inappropriate policy framework and an approach to privatization that has, in a number of different ways, made subsequent …
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