The political context: building new states / Judy Batt and Kataryna Wolczuk -- Regulatory institutions and regulatory policy for telecommunications in economies in transition: some issues and an illustration / Martin Cave -- The present challenges of competition law and policy in Central Eastern Europe / Otto Heinz -- Employee ownership in Polish privatizations / Domenico Mario Nuti -- Political economy of privatization in Hungary: a progress report / Anna Canning and Paul Hare -- Privatization in the Czech Republic / Lina Takla -- The Slovak Republic: macroeconomic success and lagging microeconomic reform -- how long can it last? / Jon Stern -- Economic competition in the transitional Slovak economy: creation, promotion or protection? / Eugen Jurzyca -- The political economy of privatization in Estonia / Alari Purju -- Privatization and regulation of public utilities in Latvia / Junior R. Davis -- Concentration of capital in the process of voucher privatization in Lithuania / Rasa Morkûnaitë -- Privatization and restructuring in Russia: a review and micro evidence from St Petersburg / Derek C. Jones -- Privatization in Ukraine: st ages, actors and outcomes / Larisa Leshchenko and Valeriy Revenko -- Should competition authorities be concerned about monopoly pricing? The example of Ukraine / Marie Clark -- Enterprise restructuring in Ukraine / Adam Rosevear -- The political economy of state-building in Moldova / Judy Batt, Mohammed Ishaq and Paul Hare -- The institutional framework of privatization and competition in economies in transition (overview) / Silvana Malle
Summary
This work details many transition economies of Eastern Europe - some already well known, others enjoying very little attention from researchers - and a range of important issues to do with state building and its links with microeconomic transformation