This book is a result of the 5th Biennual Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies "Economies in Transition and the Variety of Capitalisms: Features, Changes, Convergence" held in Varna, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 1998. It includes 28 papers from all discussed...

[fre] Les gains attendus par les pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale de l’élargissement de l’Union européenne et de l’entrée dans l’euro . L’élargissement de l’Union européenne aux pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale comporte des effets économiques réels et est susceptible...

[eng] Sports - finance and ethics. Finance is poured into sports for all, from four sources : the State budget, municipalities, private enterprises (including the media) and household expenditures on sport. These four sources are analysed in the case of France and ten other European countries....

The paper presents two building blocks for elaborating on a disequilibrium economics model that fits with empirical evidence of a European team sport (soccer) league where teams are win-maximizing and operate under a soft budget constraint. Going beyond the standard equilibrium model justifies...

In this authoritative collection, Professor Andreff presents the most significant articles published over the last decade or so by leading scholars in the field of sports economics. The volumes cover a wide spectrum of approaches to the subject. Some articles delve more deeply into existing...

Introduction – 1. Major features of a globalized sports economy – 2. International economic flows in a global sports economy – 3. Globalization as geographical spread of the sports economy – 4. Globalization of professional sports – Conclusion – References

Pres de dix ans apres la mise en route du processus de privatisation en Europe centrale et dans l’ex-URSS, quels enseignements s’en degagent aujourd’hui ? Sans pretendre dresser un bilan exhaustif, cet article analyse plus particulierement deux defaillances de ce processus tel qu’il a...

The privatization in transition countries generated distorsions. Among the most dangerous distorsions are those introduced by a non legal or criminal privatization of management with the help of former or new informal networks connecting managers to the irregular economy and to some extent to...