The paper analyzes the multi-channel contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth in eight transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), i.e. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia...

Years after commencement of the systemic reforms in Central East Europe and the former Soviet Union the debate on the way of conducting reforms is still on. The main question remains: gradualism or radicalism? Unfortunately many countries decided to embark on a radical way of transformation...

The paper presents evolution of the Polish fiscal system from the very beginning of Poland's transformation. Effective management of the public funds is crucial for sustaining macroeconomic stability and using public money for financing pro-growth activities. The goal of fiscal reforms, which...

This paper starts by separating the transformational recession (reduction of output in most transition economies in the first half of the 1990s) from the process of economic growth (recovery from the transformational recession) in 28 transition economies (including China, Vietnam and Mongolia)....

It is argued in literature that two schools of thoughts might have been most relevant and influential to the policy formation and implementation in transition economies, with distinguishable economic and social outcomes. While Russia and some countries in the Central and Eastern Europe have...

In many transition economies, insiders controlled state-owned firms, de facto. For such firms, we model the decision about privatization method, focusing on the choice between free distribution (so called 'mass privatization') and management-employee buyouts. We incorporate a political...

The paper examines the inflation targeting regime in the context of transition economies. Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of central banks in these countries moving towards the implementation of inflation targeting regimes. However, the success of such a regime depends largely...

This chapter is an attempt to interpret recent rapid Chinese growth in a longer term perspective. First, it is argued that recent economic liberalization produced spectacular results (1979-onwards) because reform strategy was very different from the Washington consensus package (gradual rather...

The 'Washington consensus' and 'shock therapy' approach to transition economies ignored the Keynesian lessons from the Great Depression: that market instability is a possibility and there may be an active role of government in managing stability and growth. The severe output decline in East...

Montenegrin transition has acquired in some of its significant aspects an opposite developmental approach of a destructive and deeply in crisis character. Economically inefficient socialist system transformed into a conglomerate like unsystemic structure, mutantly recombined order, which...