Publications

The central question investigated in this paper is what happens after privatization. It asks how privatization affects the economic performance of privatized companies, and thereby of transforming eco...chevron_right

This paper is an attempt at a comparative overview of banking sector systemic risk in six Central European countries. The countries covered by the paper are specific insofar as they moved from a socia...chevron_right

This report presents the results of empirical research concerning the progress of privatization and its impact on the situation of privatized enterprises in Bulgaria. The primary aim of the research w...chevron_right

The paper intends to give a comparative picture on the disinflation strategies carried out by transition countries and their results related mainly to the speed and sustainability of disinflation. The...chevron_right

This paper presents the main macroeconomic and fiscal challenges for five transition countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia) during the EU accession process and beyond. Atte...chevron_right

This paper discusses the value added tax, personal income tax, corporate income tax and excise tax in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Kyrgyz Republic. The autho...chevron_right

This paper discusses problems connected with the accession of Central European Countries to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The author argues that while accession may, to some extent, solve bot...chevron_right

Based on a comparative analysis of six countries, this paper assesses the implications of the varying degrees of implementation in national legal and regulatory systems of the institutional framework ...chevron_right

This paper describes the dynamics and structure of public external liabilities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, and Ukraine. It finds that despite th...chevron_right

This paper is usin g the example of the Czech Republic since 1993 to describe the hidden risks, implicitly existing in the system of public finances during the transition period (from a centrally plan...chevron_right

These papers explores the determinants of household savings rates in Poland. The first article estimates the determinants of household saving in Poland in the years 1994-–1997. The second publication ...chevron_right

This paper analyzes Romania's pension system, focusing on the pre-1989 socialist system, when transfers to pensioners were strictly limited according to the resources available, and Romania's retireme...chevron_right

This paper presents a model, which represents an unorthodox approach to the analysis of economies in transition. It takes into account the transactions in both the official and shadow economies. Among...chevron_right

This paper details estimates of the size and the social and demographic composition of the population of Poland, in the years 1997-2050, which takes into account the 1999 pension reform. The paper tra...chevron_right

The paper examines neoclassical measures to evaluate government policy in transition countries: marginal factor prices and the return to capital, growth rates and taxes, inflation rates, and debt/GDP ...chevron_right