presents preliminary results from Poland's privatization experience. Part III identifies the anticipated and unanticipated … institutional and behavioral barriers to privatization in Poland. Part IV offers several lessons for other transition economies …Contrary to expectations and announcements of policy makers in transition economies, privatization has taken longer …

The aim of the present paper is to discuss the role of the Mass Privatization Programme (MPP) in Poland, as a vehicle …, as a novel way of effective privatization of firms involved coupled with their overhaul and in-depth restructuring …. Unlike similar mass privatization schemes in other transition economies (e.g. Russia, Czech Republic or Slovakia) the Polish …

Piotr Kozarzewski and Maciej Bałtowski analyse the causes and manifestations of Poland's recent shift in economic … policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects … of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse …

This Third Volume in the acclaimed series of CEU Privatization Reports deals with the transition to a free market in … retail trade and consumer services in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic … concerning all aspects of the small privatization process …