Privatisation is the major component in all the transition processes carried out in the Central and East European countries. With different pace and scale across the counties, it took distinct, sometimes even opposing forms. The volume presents the results from a comparative research on mass...

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between advertising, fees and quality in the self-regulating professions. Much of the literature is derived from the perspective of advertising as an information-enhancing device, helping to reduce the information...

The economic literature on enforcement is generally pessimistic concerning the use of legal aid. In this Paper we show that legal aid can be part of optimal law enforcement. The rationale behind our result is that with legal aid, in a system with legal or judicial error, both guilty and innocent...