This paper examines current macroeconomic evidence on the characteristics and magnitude of structural change in Poland during the reform era. The analysis is based on a comparison of two social accounting matrices (SAMs) compiled for 1987 and 1993, three years either side of the introduction of...

The paper combines and compares in a uniform framework various explanations for output decline during transition in Eastern Europe. The framework is provided by a computable general equilibrium model, calibrated for Poland, and used to quantify the consequences of some phenomena advanced as...

This article uses the sequencing of privatization to infer the objective pursued by the Polish government in the privatization of its large manufacturing firms in the second half of the 1990s. We construct a model of mixed oligopoly and use it to evaluate the privatization process; our analysis...