This work is part of studies conducted by the IET in the sphere of institutional changes going on within the framework of the economy in transition. Particular emphasis is placed on state-of-the-art methods of theoretic and empirical research that can reveal the influence of different...

The aim of this research paper is to analyze those external corporate governance mechanisms, which either play a practical role or give an idea about the specifics of the Russian model. In the context of general institutional issues first of all market mechanisms are analyzed, which are “in...

This work is part of studies conducted by the IET in the sphere of institutional changes going on within the framework of the economy in transition. Particular emphasis is placed on state-of-the-art methods of theoretic and empirical research that can reveal the influence of different...

The aim of this research paper is to analyze those external corporate governance mechanisms, which either play a practical role or give an idea about the specifics of the Russian model. In the context of general institutional issues first of all market mechanisms are analyzed, which are “in...

This article starts with the increasing differences between Central and Oriental economies since the beginning of the transition process. The countries that are most favorable to Foreign Direct Investment (Hungary, the Czech Republic and to a lesser extent Poland) enjoy better results than the...

Central European countries highlight the importance of institutions as they are of somewhat different nature in this diverse group of countries, given their different history. Briefly, before World War II there was a market economy in place in Central Europe – as opposed to most Eastern...

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...

This paper deals with the economic impact of transition in Eastern Europe and the CIS. As a whole, the results are surprisingly bad with most of the countries still under the per capita income of the beginning of the transition, ten years after. We put the poor macroeconomic performances of...

This paper deals with the conversion of the former soviet scientific military system based on a case study of a scientific complex in the Ural devoted to research related to biological war. First, the paper attempts to describe the complex and its organization. In a second step, it presents the...

This paper investigates the role of the State Duma of Russia in energy regulation between 1994 and 2003. We applying Poole?s optimal classification model of roll call votes using an ordered probit model to show impact of partisan, bureaucratic, social and economic determinants on energy law...