[PDF] Wealth Creation In Eastern Europe eBook

Author : Fred R. Kaen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Corporations
ISBN : 9781560243052

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Enhance your understanding of the economic impact of rapid political changes in Eastern Europe with the valuable insights in this provocative book. Wealth Creation in Eastern Europe examines the difficulties faced by Eastern European nations converting from economic systems based on public ownership and non-market mechanisms for allocating goods and capital, to systems based on private ownership and reliance on market prices for allocating resources. Authoritative contributors bring to light a variety of perspectives to financial management in this rapidly changing environment. Important topics covered by this useful book include a macroeconomic view of the problems created by German unification, difficulties caused by applying standard valuation models and techniques to Eastern European enterprises, and the reaction of Western financial markets when companies announce joint venture investments in Eastern Europe. Readers will find valuable insights into critical financial concerns in Eastern European countries on such subjects such as the difficulty of ascertaining the value of state enterprises and determining whether their continued existence makes economic sense the problems created by the absence of clear titles to property and business for reorganizing economic activity under private ownership the need for a legal system that recognizes rights by ownership and enforces contract law the difficulties caused by the virtually complete absence of accounting-based information and information systems needed to evaluate organizations’economic efficiency problems encountered when conferring social legitimacy on a capitalist private enterprise system after decades of indoctrination about the evils of capitalism

Author : Adam Zwass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351710923

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This title was first published in 1979. Essential information for understanding a credit system that is different from that of the 'Capitalist' countires and which has envolved into an integral and essential part of 'soviet- type economies'. Dr Zwass has done a workman-like job in providing another valuable contribution to our knowledge of economies of eastern europe- George Garvy.

Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521438827

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This book, first published in 1992, examines the distribution of income under Communism in Eastern Europe, and its implications for economic transformation.

Author : Leo Paul Dana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136402241

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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the development of entrepreneurship across Eastern Europe Throughout Eastern Europe, post-Communist countries transitioning to market-based economies are obtaining a variety of results due to diverse policy approaches. When Economies Change Hands evaluates the nature of entrepreneurship in this region, the consequences of central planning, the reasons for internal subsistence activity, and the emergence of the sex trade in Eastern Europe. The wealth of information in this resource is clearly presented and includes thought-provoking policy prescriptions for the future. It is challenging to predict the direction emerging markets will take, particularly when dealing with the wide-ranging social and economic situations taking place in post-Communist Eastern Europe. When Economies Change Hands can help. This reference volume for policymakers, educators, investors, and researchers provides a much-needed and timely survey of the transitioning markets of post-Communist Europe. It examines the historical, sociocultural, and economic impacts of market transition. The text includes a discussion of the creation and distribution of wealth in the countries of Eastern Europe that will leave you better informed about the dynamics of transitioning economies and the growth of entrepreneurship across Eastern Europe. In addition, the book demonstrates the problems and advantages of both slow reform and rapid reform models in a thorough and easy-to-read manner. When Economies Change Hands includes vivid photos of notable entrepreneurs and a sophisticated trail of references for academics that complements the useful and meaningful information you will find in the text. When Economies Change Hands examines how various policies affect the economies of transitioning countries by incorporating and discussing: detailed definitions and comparisons of formal and parallel economies an in-depth study of entrepreneurship in the Republic of Albania, the Eastern Bloc of Comecon, The Baltic States, and the Commonwealth of Independent States pluralism in the former Yugoslav Republics analyses of governmental programs and policy prescriptions for the future and much more! As the market economies of Eastern Europe develop and expand, the value of this meticulous yet accessible text will continue to increase. Whether you are a policymaker, an educator, an investor, or a researcher, When Economies Change Hands is a resource that you’ll return to again and again as you work to understand and predict the future of post-Communist economies in Eastern Europe.

Author : Roman Frydman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9633864917

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In Eastern Europe privatization is now a mass phenomenon. The authors propose a model of it by means of an illustration from the example of Poland, which envisages the free provision of shares in formerly public undertakings to employees and consumers, and the provision of corporate finance from foreign intermediaries. One danger that emerges is that of bureaucratization. On the broader canvas, mass privatization implies the reform of the whole system, the creation of a suitable economic infrastructure for a market economy and the institutions of corporate governance. The authors point out the need for a delicate balance between evolution - which may be too slow - and design - which brings the risk of more government involvement than it is able to manage. A chapter originating as a European Bank working paper explores the banking implications of setting up a totally new financial sector with interlocking classes of assets. The economic effects merge into politics as the role of the state is investigated. Teachers and graduate students of public/private sector economies, East European affairs; advisers to bankers or commercial companies with Eastern European interests.

Author : Agenda-Group
Publisher : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The collaborative work of a group of distinguished European and American scholars, The Market Shock puts forward a new constructive and more humane approach to reconstructing the formerly communist economies. The reconstruction of the Central and Eastern European economies seems to resemble the 1920s more than the 1950s: inflation continues, output and employment fall and with them the living conditions of the common people. Is this decline necessary for the construction of the market economy which will bring wealth and well-being? This book argues that not only is the decline not necessary, it even may prevent the creation of a market-based economy. Current programs based on the abolition of controls and subsidies, tight management of the money supply, and the privatization of state property all work to reduce output and employment and living standards. But these programs lack positive measures to create the market relationships that would generate new production prospects. So far the policies have been ones of uncreative destruction. It is argued that an emergency program must first stabilize conditions so that people can believe in a better future. Then rather than wholesale privatization, incentive schemes must be used to make management responsible for meeting financial constraints. The other crucial component is the active creation of conditions in which new wealth will begin to be created: the context in which agents take decisions must be changed; economic and financial institutions are needed which encourage individuals to become market-makers; and the developed economies must produce the appropriate international context.

Author : Tomasz Kamiński (politologia)
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Sovereign wealth funds
ISBN : 9788380883321

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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property, precious metals or other financial instruments. SWFs invest globally and most of them are funded by foreign exchange assets. They may have their origin in commodities (created through commodity exports, either taxed or owned by the government) or assets transferred from official foreign exchange reserves. SWFs have been present in the financial world since 1953, when the first of them, the Kuwait Investment Board, was set up. Nevertheless their rapid development and growth of prominence is a rather new phenomena. Their growing position in the world, in terms of asset value as well as number of funds, has been observed in the world since 2005. --