Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind Auswirkungen überkommener wirtschaftlicher und institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen in postkommunistischen Übergangsgesellschaften auf die Wahl von Reformstrategien und den Verlauf der Reformpolitik. Positive Reformergebnisse können zum Abbau solcher...

The paper shows how the original semi endogenous and balanced growth model of , and my extended version of it (), could be useful in explaining the key "stylized facts" of global long-term growth so far, and in predicting its dynamics in the future. During the last two centuries the sector of...

The principal novelty of this paper lies in offering explanations of changing priorities and of the stop-go-stop sequence of policies in Poland in the years 1990-1991. The paper suggests that, in the first year of the reform, achieving price stability was secondary to the following three other...

In this paper we develop a new model of growth accounting and use it to analyse the long-term growth of the US and the USSR. The technique is designed to capture the indirect or "feedback" contributions of technological change and labour input growth. These indirect contributions arise from the...