Small Privatization: The Transformation of Retail Trade and Consumer Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
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Publication Date
1994
Description
This third volume in the acclaimed series of CEU Privatization Reports deals with the transition to a free market in retail trade and consumer services in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The authors describe and analyze all the programs with the help of which shops, restaurants, and service establishments have been privatized in the three most advanced post-communist countries and provide detailed quantitative evidence concerning all aspects of the small privatization process. The volume also presents the results of the first extensive empirical survey of privatized establishments in the three countries and draws important conclusions concerning the conditions necessary for a successful privatization of the retail trade and consumer service sectors in Eastern Europe. The authors argue that small privatization is, above all, a transfer of ownership to commercial real estate and that the nature of the rights conveyed to the new owners makes a great difference with respect to post-privatization restructuring. They also show that the presence of outside owners, not connected with predecessor state establishments, is one of the most important factors determining the extent of changes brought about by small privatization.
Disciplines
Economics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
ISBN
1858660068
Publisher
Central European University Press
City
Budapest, Hungary
Recommended Citation
Earle, John S.; Frydman, Roman; Rapaczynski, Andrzej; and Turkewitz, Joel, "Small Privatization: The Transformation of Retail Trade and Consumer Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland" (1994). Faculty Books. 201.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/201