Market economies experience high rates of job creation and job destruction in almost every
time period and sector. Each year, many businesses expand and many others contract. New …

This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from planned to market
economy in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first …

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the
importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the …

The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of
neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated …

The key event in the era's welter of competing arguments was less the politicization of
argument than the breakup into fragments of the block ideas that had dominated American …

In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy
and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms …

THE ECONOMIES of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (FSU) escaped
communism with a heavy burden. When central planning collapsed, they continued to suffer …

This paper uses firm‐level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of foreign direct
investment on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies …

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the
1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement …

Using aggregate balance sheet data from banks across the EU-25 over the period from
1997 to 2005 we provide empirical evidence that national banking market concentration has …