This paper deals with liberalization and the evolution of output during the transition from plan to market. It explains why strong liberalization leads to a comparatively steep fall in output early in the transition, but a relatively strong recovery later on. Because it takes time to restructure...

This paper deals with Russia’s transition from communism to market economy which has been harder than anticipated just a decade ago. The rise in prosperity that the market economy had promised had not been materialised. But, in other transition countries from successes and failures, lessons...

The transition process in which a country moves from a planned economy to a market economy offers a unique opportunity for economists and policymakers to observe and understand the effects of major institutional, legal, and political changes on economic systems. But one feature of the process...

The profound structural reform underway in Eastern Europe has revealed the weakness of the banking sector there; macroeconomic stability and other reforms are thereby threatened. After an overview of recent developments in the banking sectors of these countries, a model is developed that...

The effectiveness of China's incremental industrial reform between 1980--89 is investigated using a panel data set of 272 state enterprises. This paper applies a method that measures marginal products of factors and changes in total factor productivity (TFP) by comparing actual changes in output...

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1989-ben a Föld 36 országát marxista-leninista pártok irányították. Ma már csak Észak-Koreát és Kubát. Ez világtörténelmi jelentőségű változás, amelynek Magyarország is részese volt. A Kelet-Európában és a Szovjetunióban 1989-1990-ben végbement változások 25....

Having generated not only growth performance, but also serious imbalances that make it unsustainable in the future, “the Chinese model” has entered into a complex and profound adjustment process, designed to restore its vitality and sustainability, so that the Chinese economy doesn’t...