The authors describe and analyze all the programs with the help of which shops, restaurants, and service establishments have been privatized in the three most advanced postcommunist countries and provide detailed quantitative evidence concerning all aspects of the small privatization process

Der Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks im Jahr 1990 hat die Region Ostbayern aus einer Randlage herausgeführt. Die Grenzöffnung zum Nachbarn Tschechien hat frühere bestehende Verbindungen wieder aufleben lassen. Die tief greifenden Veränderungen – so sollte man zumindest meinen – haben auch...

The authors of this treatise attempt to provide a deeper understanding of the economic and political transformations now taking place in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. They build up a detailed picture of the privatization process in the retail trade, catering and more general services....

While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, this study examines the link between services sector...