This book is about barriers to entry in early transition. It analyses the barriers faced by new private firms in five countries at different stages of transition: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland as the front-runners of the process, and Albania and Lithuania which followed them later. It...

What is the role of entrepreneurship in economic development from the perspective of neo-austrian and new institutional economics and what is the difference between these approaches? Neo-austrian economists claim that economic development is caused by entrepreneurial discovery. New institutional...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Estern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding th sources of enterpreneurship. A relativ demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27000 adults...

Ende Januar 1996 fand in Paris ein Treffen mehrerer Delegationen osteuropäischer Staaten statt. Im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion stand das Problem der Finanzierung neugegründeter Privatunternehmen. Die einzelnen Teilnehmer stellten ihre Lösungen vor und diskutierten mit Wirtschaftsexperten...

Although there is a rich debate about entrepreneurship and its impact on economic development, much less is known about the actual levels of entrepreneurial activity. The main aim of the article is, thus, to map the level of entrepreneurial activity in the Czech Republic, its structure, and...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...