The collapse of the communist regime in Central and South-Eastern Europe gave way to sweeping economic and socio-political changes, marked by the conversion of centrally planned state economies into market economies, political liberalisation and democratisation, as well as to integration into...

Two or three decades from now, economic historians will note that a hallmark of successful transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was the speed in which it became a non-issue for the body politic. A corollary of this is the expectation that, as formerly centrally planned economies...

Based on a spatially augmented gravity model the current paper isolates spatial interrelationships in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) not only across the destination but also across the origin country dimension of FDI. Results show that: (i)...

National science and technology (S&T) systems are mentioned, in politics as well as in science, as a condition for the competitiveness of domestic high technology industries. An active S&T policy has, therefore, great importance for governments. Eastern European countries see, in an active S&T...

Der Bericht umfaßt die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage vom Oktober 1993 über das Investitionsklima in den Transformationsländern. Die Investoren bevorzugen ein stabiles oder sich kalkulierbar veränderndes wirtschafts- und ordnungspolitisches Umfeld. Es besteht derzeit ein deutliches...

Der Reformprozeß in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas hat neben vielen Zielen ein wichtiges Element - die Verbesserung der Umweltstandards. Eine sorgfältige Abstimmung der Umweltstandards auf die Eigendynamik des Modernisierungsprozesses wird die Wahrscheinlichkeit verbessern, daß die...