The process of economic and political transition from central planning to market economy involves a profound transformation of the way the resources are allocated in the economy. In these circumstances, economists need to find ways to assess and compare the transition impact of investment...

This paper proposes three propositions for the future of European industrial policy, based on a discussion of the Report 'An Agenda for a Growing Europe' (Sapir at al, 2004). My first proposition is that the growth gap between Us and Eu indeed exists, it is not a statistical artefact, in spite...

This paper compares the treatment of the family in the eleven Euro Countries and U.K. tax systems. For the sake of simplicity families with only one earner are considered. In the first section we survey the main features of the current systems in the twelve Countries to take account of marriage...

THE CURRENCY BOARD AND THE RISE OF BANKING IN EAST AFRICA. The East Africa region consists today of three independent countries, Kenya, Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) and Uganda, which, from the early 1920’s to the achievement of independence, formed an administrative unit under British rule:...

This paper presents a counterexample to the Miyagiwa (1991) claim that discriminatorygovernment procurement policy is ineffective as a protectionist device, when the goods are alsoconsumed by the private sector. The procurement sector is a homogeneous product Cournot-Nashduopoly, with a home and...

Using nonlinear optimization techniques in fractal image compression. Fractal image compression generally seeks to express an image as a union of spatially contracted and greyscale modified copies of subsets of itself. Most practical as well as theoretical works in image processing and...

Many definitions of second order generalized derivatives have been introduced to obtain optimality conditions for optimization problems involving C(1,1) data. The aim of this paper is to show some relations among these definitions and to study necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for...

This paper presents a new concept of art economics, here understood as an economics of the diffusion of artistic knowledge. Our thesis is that, in order to solve problems linked to public funding of the arts and to the efficiency of the culture industry, the economist has to set foot on the...

The aim of the paper is firstly provision of an analysis of the perception of the EU a year after the accession. It is shown that the population of the Czech Republic is shortly after accession rather sceptic about the EU integration. This serves as a context for a discussion the European...