Authors:Marjan Svetlicic, Matija Rojec,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: transition, european, economies, development, central, direct, internationalization, outward, facilitating, investment
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2003-09
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0754631338
ISBN-13: 9780754631330

This work provides an in-depth evaluation of the rationale as well as theoretical and empirical explanations of the outward internationalization of firms from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. The authors present the first broader empirical evidence on transition economies’ OFDI and internationalization, evaluate the role of transnational companies from transition economies and development implications of outward internationalization for home economies. They put the experience of firms from transition economies into the framework of existing theories, study to w

Author: Peter Wehrheim
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: transition, development, economy, russia, modeling
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2003-08
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754632997
ISBN-13: 9780754632993

This text analyses the economy-wide effects of various trade and economic policies that have affected Russia’s transition from plan to market in the past decade. The issues discussed relate to the allocative effects of macro-economic reforms (exchange rate alterations) or reforms in the agro-food sector which have affected Russia’s economy in transition. To facilitate the analysis an economy-wide model of Russia’s economy is developed. The model is a computable general equilibrium model and as such is the economist’s version of a laboratory in which it is possible to co

Author: Gregg S. Robins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: transition, studies, economic, unification, germany, east, banking
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2000-04-22
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0312223927
ISBN-13: 9780312223922

The book asks whether transplanting banks can solve the problems involved in creating a well-functioning market economy from outside, looking especially at the virtually complete takeover of East German banks by their Western counterparts after unification. Drawing on a wide range of English and German sources, and fieldwork interviews across Germany, it argues that there are no quick fix solutions to transition to a market. Implications are discussed for East Germany and for other previously centrally planned economies, and the global implications of foreign ownership in banking are consider

Authors:Rob Hopkins,  Richard Heinberg,
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: transition, resilience, guides, local, dependency, handbook, oil
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1900322188
ISBN-13: 9781900322188

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencie

Author: Jozef M. van Brabant
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: transition, routledge, studies, transformation, societies, limits, economy, opportunities, political
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1998-05-06
List price: $260.00
ISBN-10: 0415169461
ISBN-13: 9780415169462

This book addresses the policy questions surrounding the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities. Jozef van Brabant considers in turn, the wider set of challenges facing these economies - stabilization, privatization, liberalization, institution building, and developing and maintaining the sociopolitical consensus - before examining the evolving role of the state. Using concrete examples from the eastern European countries throughout, including the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, this work systematically examine

Author: Hella Engerer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: transition, rights, studies, economic, property, europe, limits, central, eastern, privatization
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0333751426
ISBN-13: 9780333751428

Hella Engerer analyzes the emergence, evolution, and theory of property rights and establishes the limits for privatization of state-owned enterprises in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe. She counters the assumption that reduction of the state sector helps to create the basis for a private property system, showing that privatization presupposes a stable framework for property. This is a major contribution to the understanding of the emerging economic order of Central and Eastern Europe.

Author: Leng Jing
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Keywords: transition, globalization, hku, press, series, law, context, economy, governance, financial, reform, china, corporate
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9622099327
ISBN-13: 9789622099326

This book examines corporate governance reforms in China as an economy in transition - from a planned economy to a market economy - in the context of globalization and the country’s accession to WTO. The author interprets China’s experience as a gradualist transition strategy, which is appropriate given the existing constraints imposed by China’s limited political, legal and regulatory framework. This approach also compares favorably with the radical privatization programme ("shock therapy") in Russia. In China, "institutional innovations" play a key role in discovering a bet