This paper presents methodology and results of a methodological evaluation of the research capital of Czech economics departments and research institutions, and of the research performance of individual economists in the Czech Republic, as measured by publication history and citation records in...

The article contains a general analysis of the exchange rate convergence process of EU and eurozone-candidate countries. Emphasis is given to an analysis of the exchange rate policy of member states within the ERM/ERM2 mechanism (beginning several years before the introduction of the euro) and...

This article provides a general account of the Polish transition from socialist central planning to a market economy and tries to explicate the main causes of the relative success of this transition. The second section offers an overview of the main steps in the reform process. It begins with a...

The author highlights the striking difference between the economic transition of the Czech Republic and Hungary. These two countries, roughly of the same size and same level of development, have traveled on markedly diverging paths toward relative prosperity. After the velvet revolution of 1989,...

The article contains a general analysis of the exchange rate convergence process of EU and eurozone-candidate countries. Emphasis is given to an analysis of the exchange rate policy of member states within the ERM/ERM2 mechanism (beginning several years before the introduction of the euro) and...

The article is a general analysis of the exchange rate convergence process for EU and Eurozone candidate countries. The introduction states that exchange rate strategies of candidate countries have to be consistent with the „acquis communataire“ from beginning to end. For these countries,...

Pøeklad pøednášky profesora Josepha Stiglitze, kterou pronesl na pùdì IES FSV UK v èervnu 2001. Hlavním pøedmìtem pøednášky byly otázky ekonomické transformace a specifické role, kterou v této transformaci hrají otázky morálního hazardu a morálky obecnì.

V první dekádì dubna 2002 se uskuteènil 36. semináø ÈSE z øady ?Ekonomické teorie a èeská ekonomika? s názvem: ?Iinflation Targeting ? Lessons from the International Experience?, uspoøádaný ve spolupráci s Èeskou národní bankou. Hostem organizujících institucí byl øeèník...

The authors critically discuss some of the theses of Svetozar Pejovich from his article On the Privatization of "Stolen Goods" in Central and Eastern Europe. The Independent Review, v. X, N. 2, Fall 2005, s. 209-229. ISSN 1086- 653. Their polemic can be summarized as follows: (1) According to...

The study examines the changes of the Central Eastern European region first in the context of world history. It confirms by comparative historical analyses that the transformation was indeed unique. This has been the only total transformation that took place peacefully, without violence, and at...