The aim of the present paper is to show the most aggregate quantitative results of systemic transformation in Poland to date, in terms of changes of country's absolute and relative development levels, i.e. its GDP per capita compared to other countries, in particular fellow transition economies...

This paper seeks to explore the fiscal performance in Poland - one of the top reformer transition economies and simultaneously the largest of ten new EU member countries. At the same time it aims to highlight major fiscal implications of country's accession to the European Union. If not properly...

The aim of this contribution is a comparative analysis of the challenges Poland and Greece (and more broadly - CEE-10 and GIPS countries) had to face in the past as latecomers to the European Union and are facing now, in the aftermath of the world financial and economic crisis of 2008-09.

Contrary to expectations and announcements of policy makers in transition economies, privatization has taken longer than originally planned. This paper analyzes the institutional and behavioral factors that compound systemic barriers to privatization and thus transition from a centrally planned...

This paper aims to assess both the explicit and implicit convergence criteria for Poland's possible membership in the Economic and Monetary Union, with special emphasis on institutional underpinnings of the country's prospects of adopting the euro. While the former set of criteria (embedded in...

The aim of this paper is to determine how contract conditions in licensing agreements between Poland and the industrialized market-economy countries influence the long-term effects of imports of modern technology. Analysis is confined to two essential aspects of this problem. The first concerns...