International Workshop in Transition Economics

A joint CEPR/WDI (University of Michigan) International Workshop in Transition Economics was held in Prague from 9 July to 12 July 1998. The workshop, which was hosted by CERGE-EI, was organized by Gérard Roland (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR) and Jan Svejnar (WDI, CERGE-EI and CEPR). Financial assistance was provided by the European Union's Phare ACE Programme 1996. The papers presented were as follows:

'Ownership and Managerial Competition: Employee, Customer, or Outside Ownership', Patrick Bolton (Princeton University, CentER, Tilburg University and CEPR) and Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics, HIID, Harvard University and WDI)

'Investment and Wages in Transition', Janez Prasnikar (University of Ljubljana, WDI and CEPR) and Jan Svejnar (WDI, CERGE-EI and CEPR)

'Voucher Privatization with Investment Funds: An Institutional Analysis', David Ellerman (World Bank)

'Privatization, Ownership Structure and Transparency: How to Measure a Real Involvement of the State', Frantisek Turnovec (CERGE-EI)

'Real Exchange Disparities in the CEE Countries', Evzen Kocenda (CERGE-EI, WDI and CEPR)

'Restructuring Investment in Transition: A Model of the Enterprise Decision', Richard E Ericson (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, and WDI)

'Bureaucracies in the Russian Voucher Privatization', Guido Friebel (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, WDI and CEPR)

'Firm Performance in Bulgaria and Estonia: The Effects of Competitive Pressure, Financial Pressure and Disorganisation', Jozef Konings (LICOS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR)

'Capital Structure of Firms in Central and Eastern Europe', Francesca Cornelli (London Business School, WDI and CEPR), Richard Portes (London Business School and CEPR) and Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University and WDI)

'Efficiency Losses from Tax Distortions vs Government Control', Chong-En Bai (Boston College), Roger Gordon (WDI, University of Michigan and CEPR) and David Li (University of Michigan, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and CEPR)

'Delegation and Delay in Bank Privatization', Loránd Ambrus-Lakatos (Central European University, Budapest, WDI and CEPR) and Ulrich Hege (CentER, Tilburg University and CEPR)

'Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia', John S Earle (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, and WDI)and Klara Z Sabirianova (Urals State University and SITE, Stockholm School of Economics)

'Corruption in Transition', Susanto Basu (University of Michigan) and David Li (University of Michigan, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and CEPR)

'Political Instability and Growth in Proprietary Economies', Jody Overland (University of Colorado, Denver) and Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway College, London, and WDI)

'Finance and Investment in Transition: Czech Enterprises 1993-1994', Ronald Anderson (IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and CEPR) and Chantal Kegels (Université Catholique de Louvain and LABORES, Université Catholique de Lille)

'Performance of Czech Companies by Ownership Structure', Georgiy Nikitin (Boston University) and Andrew Weiss (Boston University)

'A Model of the Informal Economy in the Transition Setting', Simon Commander (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank and WDI) and Andrei Tolstopiatenko (World Bank)

'Tax Avoidance and the Allocation of Credit', Anna Meyendorff (WDI, University of Michigan Business School)

'Coordinating Changes in M-form and U-form Organizations', Yingyi Qian (Stanford University and CEPR), Gérard Roland (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, WDI and CEPR), and Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics, HIID, Harvard University, and WDI)

'Privatization and Market Structure in a Transition Economy', John Bennett (University of Wales, Swansea) and James Maw (University of Wales, Swansea)

'Competition, Selection and Entry: A Model of the Social Returns to Infrastructure with Asymmetric Firms', Mark Schankerman (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and London School of Economics)

'Intragovernment Procurement of Local Public Good: A Theory of Decentralization in Nondemocratic Government', Chong-En Bai (Boston College), Yu Pan (University of Minnesota) and Yijiang Wang (University of Minnesota and WDI)

'Financing Mechanism and R&D Investment', Haizhou Huang (London School of Economics and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) and Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics, HIID, Harvard University, and WDI)

'Disorganization, Financial Squeeze, and Barter', Dalia Marin (Universität München and CEPR)

'To Restructure or Not to Restructure: Informal Activities and Enterprise Behaviour in Transition', Clifford Graddy (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC) and Barry W Ickes (Pennsylvania State University)

'Corporate Structure and Performance in Hungary', László Halpern (Institute of Economics, Budapest, WDI and CEPR) and Gábor Kórösi (Institute of Economics, Budapest)

'Output and Unemployment Dynamics in Transition', Vivek H Dehejia (Carleton University, Ottawa, WDI and CEPR) and Douglas W Dwyer (William M Mercer Inc, New York)

'Accession and Real Exchange Movements: A Comparison', Evzen Koèenda (CERGE-EI, WDI and CEPR)

'Chronic Moderate Inflation in Transition: The Tale of Hungary', János Vincze (National Bank of Hungary and Central European University, Budapest)

'Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in the Russian Federation and Poland', Hartmut Lehmann (Trinity College Dublin and WDI), Jonathan Wadsworth (Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Royal Holloway College, London)

'Unemployment and the Social Safety Net During Transitions to a Market Economy: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics', John C Ham (University of Pittsburgh), Jan Svejnar (WDI, CERGE-EI and CEPR) and Katherine Terrell (WDI, University of Michigan Business School and CERGE-EI)

'Internal Borders', Daniel M Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh and WDI) and David N DeJong (University of Pittsburgh)

'Does Market Structure Matter? New Evidence from Russia', Annette Brown (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, WDI and CEPR) and J David Brown (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)

'Structural Adjustment and Regional Long Term Unemployment in Poland', Hartmut Lehmann (Trinity College Dublin and WDI), John O'Flaherty (Trinity College Dublin) and Patrick P Walsh (LICOS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Trinity College Dublin)

'Estimation of Euler's Function of Profit Maximising Firms: The Case of the Czech Republic 1992-1995', Ashot Baghdasarian (CERGE-EI), Lubomir Lizal (CERGE-EI) and Miroslav Singer (CERGE-EI, Expandia Finance and CEPR)