Die Staaten Osteuropas haben seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs ausgehend von einer institutionell recht homogenen Situation eine sehr heterogene Entwicklung genommen. Diese Heterogenität bezieht sich nicht nur auf einige zentrale makroökonomische Größen, sondern insb. auch auf die Ebene...

This paper applies a systems-oriented, "holistic" approach to China's radical economic reforms during the last quarter of a century. It characterizes China's economic reforms in terms of a multidimensional classification of economic systems. When looking at the economic consequences of China's...

I discuss the nature of the economic reforms in China during the last quarter of a century in the context of a typology of economic systems, emphasizing the interaction between economic and social mechanisms. I also consider China's options for further reforms. I focus on economic reforms that...

Three decades of Turkish experience with nonselective industrial policies (consistent with neoliberal policy) clearly demonstrates that structural transformation in Turkish economy could not be achieved. In this paper, we have three motivations. Our first motivation is to discuss overall...

This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...

An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

East Germany can be considered as a laboratory experiment in the economics of transition. Of the three major issues of economic reform in the transformation process (Siebert 1991c), two were solved nearly instantaneously. Monetary stabilization was achieved by extending the currency area of the...

In den Planwirtschaften Mittel- und Osteuropas war der Bereich der sozialen Sicherheit durch ein umfassendes Versorgungssystem charakterisiert. Eigenverantwortlichkeit der Individuen im Hinblick auf Lebensrisiken wie Alter, Krankheit oder Arbeitslosigkeit wurde nicht eingefordert. Insbesondere...

This paper analyses the issues of regulatory reform in the energy industry of post- Soviet countries. We identify the characteristics of the transformation that these countries go through: it is the introduction of a) a new legal culture and b) a capitalist rationality of production in societies...