Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition

Primary and Secondary Privatisation in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Károly Attila Soós

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789639776852
• eBook ISBN: 9789639776913
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: Economics

Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.The analysis is restricted to the privatisation in those fields where its methods have been strongly different from privatisations in advanced market economies and where differences of privatisation principles and techniques among our six countries were also rather various. This is basically the privatisation of middle-sized and large enterprises, not including banks, non-bank financial companies, natural monopolies and agricultural entities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• List of Graphs
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword and overview
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Privatisation: why and how?
• 3 An overview of the processes of primary privatisation in the six countries
• 4 Secondary privatisation in (essentially only) five countries
• 5 Primary and secondary privatisation—countries of slowand rapid concentration of the ownership structure
• 6 The speed of secondary privatisation and the characteristics of political transition
• 7 Conclusions
• References
• back cover