Table of Contents

CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. The Political Context: Building New States 2. Regulatory Institutions and Regulatory Policy for Telecommunications in Economies in Transition: Some Issues and an Illustration 3. The Present Challenges of Competition Law and Policy in Central Eastern Europe CENTRAL EUROPE 4. Political Economy of Privatization in Hungary: A Progress Report 5. Economic Competition in the Transitional Slovak Economy: Creation, Promotion or Protection? THE BALTICS 5. The Political Economy of Privatization in Estonia THE C.I.S. 6. Privatization and Restructuring in Russia: A Review and Micro Evidence from St. Petersburg 7. Privatization in Ukraine: Stages, Actors and Outcomes 8. Enterprise Restructuring in Ukraine 9. The Political Economy of State-Building in Moldova OUTCOMES 10. The Institutional Framework of Privatization and Competition in Economies in Transitions (Overview) 11. Privatization in the Czech Republic 12. The Slovak Republic: Macroeconomic Success and Lagging Microeconomic Reform - How Long Can It Last? 13. Should Competition Authorities Be Concerned About Monopoly Pricing? The Example of Ukraine 14. Employee Ownership in Polish Privatizations 15. Privatization and Regulation of Public Utilities in Latvia

Reviews

"As we might expect from a volume edited by three of the leading authorities on post-communist transformation, this is a stimulating contribution to the literature on change occurring in the region."
-Stuart Shields of University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK