Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies

BOZIDAR CEROVIC Professor of Economics and Dean, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia ANDRZEJ DUDZINSKI Assistant Professor of Economics, Universite Toulouse I, France GAeRARD DUCHENE Professor of Economics, University Paris 12, France J NOS KORNAI Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, USA and Permanent Fellow, Emeritus of Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary MARTIN MACHACEK Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic MARKO MALOVIC Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia JEAN-FRANCOIS NIVET Faculty of Economics, University of Tours, France JAMES PEMBERTON Professor of Economics and Head of School of Business, University of Reading, UK PHILIPPE RUSIN Lecturer, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, France KRYSTYNA SZYMKIEWICZ Researcher, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France MARIA VAGLIASINDI Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development PIETRO A.VAGLIASINDI Professor of Public and Industrial Economics, University of Parma, Italy ALENA ZEMPLINEROVA Senior Researcher, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles Univesrity, Prague, Czech Republic

Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies.Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatisation. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programmes.