Comparative Economic Studies articles from June 2004

Comparative Economic Studies archives from June 2004

Practitioners' corner.(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... Introduction One of the main goals we set out when we took over the editing of Comparative Economic Studies was to strengthen the role of the journal in bringing together academics, policy makers, and business executives by creating a...

Competition and solidarity.
June 1, 2004... An Essay on Economic Policy Turnaround and Structural Reforms Indispensable for the Convergence of Hungary with Europe: The 130 Points 1. Despite a wide diversity in public opinion on important issues regarding the future of Hungary, there...

Price and exchange rate transmission in Russian meat markets.
June 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION A major goal of Russia's economic reform that began in the early 1990s has been integration into the world economy. Integration involves liberalising both foreign trade and investment. The benefits of integration include...

Lending of first versus lending of last resort: the Bulgarian Financial Crisis of 1996/1997 (1).
June 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION During the last decade, several countries experienced some sort of financial crises. That is why the crisis problem is often seen as one of the dominant problems of the 1990s (Bordo et al., 2001, p. 53). It is thus not...

How flexible are labour markets in the EU accession countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic?
June 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION By joining the European Union, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic hope to achieve in the foreseeable future the same level of prosperity as the present EU. (1) However, in order to achieve this goal, it will be necessary...

Efficiency of Chinese township and village enterprises and property rights in the 1990s: case study of Wuxi (1).
June 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION We study below whether the relative technical efficiency of collective-owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) declined shortly before massive privatisation began in China. In particular, we test whether these...

Effect of enterprise ownership and foreign competition on internet diffusion in the transition economies.
June 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION After several, decades of slow economic growth and modest improvements in productivity, growth accelerated in the United States in the mid- to late 1990s. Whereas output increased by only 2.8 percent per year and output per...