One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...

We summarize the empirical literature on regional labour market development in transition. This literature suggests that transition has been associated with increased regional disparities and there is some indication of polarisation. Capital cities and regions closer to EU-borders developed...

The aim of this paper is to throw some light on the institutional change, regional features, and growth and labour market performances in the eight transition countries that became EU members in May 2004 (8-CEECs). The consideration of a rather fine territorial disaggregation – at NUTS-3...

Real costs of freight transportation have strong increased in Russia particularly during the period of price liberalization 1992--93. This paper investigates possible connections between rising transport costs and the evolution of the size structure of the system of cities in the Russian...

This paper identifies and problematizes three gaps in the existing literature on agglomeration economies. First, it argues that the ontology of agglomeration economies, the way in which these economies are conceptualized, needs to be revised. Far from being something “in the air” for all...

This paper will try to find the effects of fiscal policy of Government in taxation constraint in Cambodia by using the econometric model as CGE model. In addition, this compiled to broaden more the crossectional effects due to dimensions of Cambodia's economy with the main variables. By this...

This paper sets up a model to inquire into whether the rise and fall in barter transactions in Russia and other CIS countries during the 1990's was an involuntary decision resulting from credit rationing or the consequence of firms' optimal choice. We find that the transmission mechanism of the...