Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169280 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Working Papers No. 3 (127)
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
Piotr Kozarzewski and Maciej Ba±towski analyse the causes and manifestations of Poland's recent shift in economic policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse impact on the institutional setup of the Polish state, creating grounds for rent seeking and cronyism, which, in turn, impede the pace of privatization. They find out that it is the increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not, contrary to popular opinion, the global financial crisis, that most contributes to the growing statist trends of Poland's economic policy.
Subjects: 
Poland
privatization
economic policy
post-communist transition
crony capitalism
rent seeking
role of the state
JEL: 
D72
L33
P16
P31
ISBN: 
978-83-7178-640-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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