Changes in US transportation policy and changing freight flows influenced by NAFTA have refocused the attention of interior states on their transportation infrastructure. Shippers in the landlocked Midwest of the USA have inquired into the feasibility of inland ports that better facilitate...

Abstract The EU Taxonomy stands in sharp contrast to the principles of a market economy. It requires regulatory knowledge that cannot be expected to exist and hampers rather than stimulates entrepreneurial initiatives for coping with socially relevant scarcities. For all objectives addressed...

The transition of the former socialists economies to the system of market economy can also be viewed as an exceptional experiment about the real nature of market economy. In this respect, the difficulties met in the transition provide fruitful informations concerning the relative importance of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically study whether China could achieve strong export market power considering its highly decentralized coke production and trade. Design/methodology/approach – By using time series data, this paper econometrically estimates the coke export...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct a robust macroeconomic performance (MEP) index of the State economies of an emerging market economy, i.e. India. Design/methodology/approach – Two variants of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models – radial and non‐radial – are...

Since the late 1970s there have been a number of articles devoted to re‐evaluating the issues and arguments involved in the debate concerning comparative economic systems. The present state of this continuing debate is evaluated with regard to modern theories of planning, bureaucracy,...

Gives a short outline of the main charac‐teristics and emphasizes the actual signifi‐cance of Walter Eucken′s work. Summarizes the articles included in the journal.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to document a Danish fraud scheme, in which a large number of limited companies were stripped of their assets leaving them with nothing but tax debt, eventually causing the Danish Tax and Customs Administration to lose large sums. Furthermore, the purpose...

Centres on the transformation of the consumer in Russia, Hungary and Poland. Reports on a study, carried out in co‐operation with scholars in these countries, which uses focus groups to outline the impact on consumers of the transformation to a market economy, and discusses the adjustments...

Management attitudes, Examines the attitudes of a cross‐section of Czech managers with regard to their perceptions about changes brought about by the transformation process. Replicates a 1992 study in terms of assessments of important changes including financial structure and foreign ownership...