Economies in Transition

A study of strategy of Small Economies facing the Transition of large Economies Industrial Structure

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

A study of strategy of Small Economies facing the Transition of large Economies Industrial Structure

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Corporate governance in transition economies

The transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe have privatized their economies at an unprecendented speed in the 1990s. The expectation was that under private ownership, formerly state-owned firms would act as dynamic, profit-oriented players driving economic restructuring and growth. Yet, the expectation has rarely been fulfilled, and lack of effective corporate governance is often see...

Restructuring infrastructure in transition economies

Export Differentiation in Transition Economies

I investigate changes in the structure of trade of seventeen transition economies between 1996 and 2006, focusing on differences across three types of products – homogeneous goods, reference priced goods, and differentiated products. I examine shares of exports of each type of good, intensive and extensive margins, and the hazard of exporting. While there are cross-country differences in the di...