Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129027 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 477
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper provides a survey of the effects of market competition in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The pivotal element of the transition was inter-firm competition, which replaced economic planning as the method to identify demand. Pro-competitive policies that facilitated the transition are discussed, including international trade, attracting foreign direct investment and firm entry. Research topics with respect to competition changed as the transition advanced. The focus shifted from churn and macroeconomic shock-management in the initial phases toward firm entry, privatisation and restructuring of incumbents. In the later phases of transition, differentials in aggregate economic performance became obvious, pointing at institutional differences and their interplay with transitions. These are equally reflected by the degree of competition of the business environment. Also the methods changed with the evolution of the research agenda. Early case studies were displaced by large-scale, cross-country econometric studies as survey data became increasingly available.
Subjects: 
competition
transition
survey
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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