Der Ausschuß für Wirtschaftssysteme des Vereins für Socialpolitik konnte 1998 auf 30 Jahre erfolgreiche wissenschaftliche Arbeit zurückblicken. Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält alle auf seiner Potsdamer Jubiläumstagung gehaltenen Referate sowie die schriftlich vorgelegten Korreferate....

Transaction costs have become a major topic of research in the last decades. However, there is still a great shortage of empirical approaches to their effects on the economic performance. A short review of these empirical studies indicates that the impact of transaction costs on economic growth...

Far-reaching changes in the People's Republic of China's economic and social policy have been decided and carried out since 1978. The following article analyses a number of selected aspects of the economic order to illustrate the direction the reforms are taking and the limitations to which they...