2004
Alice Conner Gorlin Memorial Lecture
Oakland University's
School of Business Administration
presents
"Transition
Economies: Performances and Challenges"
Professor
Jan Svejnar
University of Michigan
Please join Oakland University in welcoming Professor Jan
Svejnar (U. of Michigan) to campus on Wednesday, March
31, 2004 at 3:00 pm in 242 Elliott Hall (campus
map).
In his paper on transition economics, Professor Svejnar provides
an overall assessment of the strategies and outcomes of the
first dozen years of the transition, as well as an outline
of the principal challenges faced by these economies. In presenting
data and examples, the author focuses primarily on comparing
the experience of the five central European countries - the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia - with
the experience of Russia.
Professor Svejnar received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton
University in 1979. Since 1996 he has been at the University
of Michigan, serving as the Executive Director of the William
Davidson Institute, the Everett E. Berg Professor at the Business
School and Professor in the Economics Department. He is the
Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI
in Prague and also serves as Associate Editor of The Economics
of Transition. Between 1995 and 2002, he served as co-director
of the Transition Economics Programme at the Center for Economic
Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
His research focuses on the functioning of labor markets,
the effect of government policy on firms’ performance,
and the behavior of multinational corporations, joint ventures
and local firms in transition and emerging market economies.
His publications have appeared
in many journals, including Journal of Comparative Economics,
Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Review
of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review,
European Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, and Econometrica.
This event is open to the public at no charge. For more information,
contact Professor Addington
Coppin, chair, Department of Economics (248-370-3541).
Consult
Professor Svejnar's web
page at the William Davidson Institute for links to selected
working papers. In addition, follow the links below to access
Professor Svejnar's journal articles and book chapters that
are owned by Kresge Library.
Online
articles & book chapters by Dr. Svejnar (available to
OU students, faculty and staff)
|
Objectives and Constraints of Entrepreneurs: Evidence
from Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria (with
Francesca Pissarides & Miroslav Singer),
Journal
of Comparative Economics
v31, n3 (September
2003): 503-31. |
| Investment,
Credit Rationing, and the Soft Budget Constraint: Evidence
from Czech Panel Data (with Lubomir Lizal),
Review of Economics and Statistics
v84,
n2 (May 2002): 353-70. |
| Enterprise
Breakups and Performance during the Transition from Plan
to Marke
(with Lubomir Lizal & Miroslav Singer),
Review
of Economics and Statistics
v83, n1 (February
2001): 92-99. |
|
Economics
Ph.D. Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Comparative
Economic Studies v42, n2 (Summer 2000): 37-50. |
| Unemployment
and the Social Safety Net during Transitions to a Market
Economy: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
(with John C. Ham & Katherine Terrell),
American
Economic Review
v88, n5 (December 1998): 1117-42. |
| Enterprises
and Workers in the Transition: Econometric Evidence,
American Economic Review
v86, n2 (May
1996): 123-27. |
| The
Emergence of Unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics (with
John Ham & Katherine Terrell),
Comparative
Economic Studies
v35, n4 (Winter 1993): 121-34.
|
| Wage
Determination in Labor-Managed Firms under Market-Oriented
Reforms: Estimates of Static and Dynamic Models (with
Saul Estrin),
Journal of Comparative Economics
v17, n3 (September 1993): 687-700. |
| Czechoslovakia:
Recent Economic Developments and Prospects (with
Karel Dyba),
American Economic Review
v81, n2 (May 1991): 185-90. |
| Workers'
Participation in Management vs. Social Ownership and Government
Policies: Yugoslav Lessons for Transforming Socialist
Economies (with Janez Prasnikar),
Comparative
Economic Studies
v33, n4 (Winter 1991): 27-45.
|
| "The
Transition Is Not Over, but Note the Merits of the Central
European Model" in When
is transition over?, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute
for Employment Research, 1999: 77-98. |
| Microeconomic
Issues in the Transition to a Market Economy,
Journal
of Economic Perspectives
v5, n4 (Fall 1991):
123-38. |
| Optimal
Membership, Employment, and Income Distribution in Unionized
and Labor-Managed Firms (with Frans Spinnewyn),
Journal
of Labor Economics
v8, n3 (July 1990): 317-40.
|
| Market
Imperfections, Labor Management, and Earnings Differentials
in a Developing Country: Theory and Evidence from Yugoslavia (with
Saul Estrin & Robert E. Moore),
Quarterly
Journal of Economics
v103, n3 (August 1988):
465-78. |
Bargaining
Power, Fear of Disagreement, and Wage Settlements: Theory
and Evidence from U.S. Industry,
Econometrica
v54, n5 (September 1986):
1055-78. |
| Participation,
Profit Sharing, Worker Ownership and Efficiency in Italian
Producer Cooperative (with Derek c. Jones),
Economica
v52, n208 (November 1985): 449-65. |
| The
Economics of Joint Ventures in Less Developed Countries (with
Stephen C. Smith),
Quarterly Journal of Economics
v99, n1 (February 1984): 149-67. |
Relative
Wage Effects of Unions, Dictatorship and Codetermination:
Econometric Evidence from Germany,
Review of Economics and Statistics
v63,
n2 (May 1981): 188-97. |
| On
the Empirical Testing of the Nash-Zeuthen Bargaining Solution,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
v33, n4 (July 1980): 536-42. |
Other
book chapters and articles by Dr. Svejnar available in Kresge
Library (in print)
| "Transition
Economies: Performance and Challenges,"
Journal
of Economic Perspectives
v16, n1 (Winter 2002):
3-28. |
| "Stabilization
and Transition in Czechoslovakia" (with Karel Dyba),
The
transition in Eastern Europe, Volume 1. Country studies.
Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 1994: 93-118. |
| "The
Performance Effects of Employee Ownership Plans"
(with Michael A. Conte), in Paying
for productivity: A look at the evidence (1990), Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1990: 143-72. |
| "The
Productivity Effects of Worker Participation: Producer
Cooperatives in Western Economies" (with Derek C.
Jones & Saul Estrin),
Journal
of Comparative Economics
v11, n1 (March 1987):
40-61. |
| "On
the Theory of a Participatory Firm,"
Journal
of Economic Theory
v27, n2 (August 1982): 313-30.
|
| "The
Economics of Joint Ventures in Centrally Planned and Labor-Managed
Economies" (with Stephen C. Smith), Journal
of Comparative Economics
v6, n2 (June 1982):
148-72. |