Most countries commonly classified as "in transition" are still recognisably different from other countries with a similar income per capita in some respects: a larger share of their work force is in industry, they use more energy, they have a more extensive infrastructure and invest more in...

Many developing market economies were strongly distorted during the 1960s and 1970s by fashionable policies to force industrialisation and they experienced growth collapses when exposed to the price shocks of the 1970s. In this context, the centrally planned economies were even more highly...

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

The abandonment of central planning led to considerable output declines in countries in the firmer soviet-bloc. The magnitude and length of the output declines, as well as recovery experiences have been very diverse. Various detfirminants of outpt growth have been identified in the literature....

Das vorliegende Buch entstand in Zusammenarbeit namhafter europäischer und amerikanischer Wissenschaftler, die für einen neuen konstruktiven und humaneren Transformation eintreten. Seit Beginn des Reformprozesses sind in den ehemals planwirtschaftlichen Staaten Produktion, Beschäftigtenzahlen...