The paper provides an overview of the institutional arrangements on the micro level that have evolved in the agro-food sector of Kazakhstan in the course of transition. Emphasis is laid on more complex arrangements like agroholdings and clusters, hitherto mostly unknown in the agro-food sectors...

In the paper an approach to decision making in situations with non-pointlike characterisation and subjective evaluation of the actions is considered. The decision situation is represented mathematically as fuzzy multiobjective linear programming (fMOLP) model, where we apply the reduced fuzzy...

Радикальные социально-экономические реформы в постсоветской России дают богатый фактический материал для исследований институциональных изменений....

Политика модернизации направлена на выравнивание уровня экономического развития стран. Экономическое развитие и институты взаимосвязаны, с одной стороны,...

В данной работе процесс модернизации понимается как система институциональных изменений, инициированных группами специальных интересов. Предпринимается...

This article examines two drastic changes in the performance of local water associations in providing local public goods -- appropriate levels of water table -- in the reclamation system in the Powiat Pyrzyce in the Voivodship Zachodniopomorski in northwest Poland. Employing an institutional...

We investigate aspects of institutional change in an evolutionary game-theoretic framework, in principle focusing on problems of coordination in groups when new solutions to a problem become available. In an evolutionary game with an underlying dilemma structure, we let a number of new...