China has sought to improve enterprise performance not through privatisation as in other transition economies, but …

gone through several phases of transition, having a mail goal the liberalization of their economies. Experiences taken from … practical point of view. The economists are still debating various strategies and their economic transition, because the … problems of transition in CEE countries are not fully resolved. The purpose of this article was the theoretical and empirical …

by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition … process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on … of natural benchmarks. We find substantial evidence of convergence of transition countries with developed market …

an increase in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

This paper uses data from a large survey of firms across 26 transition countries to examine the determinants of trust … in the transition process. We first introduce a new measure of trust between firms: the level of prepayment demanded by …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …