After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, more than a dozen countries undertook aggressive privatization programs. Proponents of economic reform championed such large-scale efforts as the fastest, most reliable way to make the transition from a state-run to a...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 The Economics of Corruption: An Overview George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- Part I Causes and Consequences of Corruption -- 2 Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures Vito Tanzi -- 3 Bureaucratic...

Intro -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- The System Solution of Uninsurable Riskswith Focus on Floods in the Czech Republic (Hana Bártová, Karel Hanzlík) -- Verification of a linear dependence between the risk premiumand the systematic risk: Empirical testing based on data from PSE (Luděk Benada,...

Intro -- Program Committee of the Conference -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Sovereign Credit Rating in Ordered Response Model Framework - Case of Visegrad Four Countries Martin Alexy, Marek Káčer -- Prediction of Agricultural Enterprises Distress Using Data Envelopment Analysis Tatiana Bányiová,...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Time-based Fee for Vehicles in the Czech Republic: New Model and Challenge? -- Financial Bilingualism as a Success Factor for Effective Business Combination Project: The Case of US Investors -- Evaluation of the Policies Supporting Cultural and Creative Industries in the...

Intro -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- NETWORKING TOWARD EU INTEGRATION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. Overview -- Part I Winners and Losers of EU Integration in Central and Eastern Europe: Cross-Country Reports -- 2. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia -- 3. The Baltic...

This book, by a distinguished economist who has worked on transition since its beginning, is one of the first to present a unified analysis of transition. Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output, that is, a sharp decline in output followed by recovery....

The author examines the United States and European Union's use of anti-dumping laws to demonstrate that discriminatory treatment persists even a decade after the end of the Cold War. She argues that lingering Cold War beliefs about the trade threat posed by Communist countries continue to affect...

This book examines the implications of EU enlargement for tourism in the region. It provides a country-by-country examination of each of the new member states, in terms of their current patterns and trends of tourism development and the impacts of EU accession on them.