Small Countries in a Global Economy

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Small Countries in a Globalised World: Their Honeymoon or Twilight?; M.Svetlicic, D.Salvatore & J.P.Damijan PART I: THE EMERGENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL COUNTRIES Nations, Conglomerates and Empires: Trade-off Between Income and Sovereignty; B.Milanovic The Economic Performance of Small Versus Large Nations; D.Salvatore Main Economic Characteristics of Small Countries: Some Empirical Evidence; J.P.Damijan PART II: TRANSITION OF SMALL CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES History of Czech Economic and Political Alignments Viewed as a Transition; V.Benacek From Monetary Integration via Monetary Independence to a New Integration? (The Case of Slovenia); I.Ribnikar Enterprise Sector Restructuring in a Small Economy: The Case of Slovenia; M.Simoneti, M.Rojec & M.Rems PART III: PROSPECTS OF SMALL COUNTRIES IN A GLOBALISING WORLD Competitiveness of Small Countries; J.D.Daniels & M.Svetlicic Experiences of a Small Country's Short Stay in the EU: The Case of Austria; F.Breuss The Contribution of Large, ('Western') Multinations to the Catching-up of Small ('Eastern') Countries; C.Bellak Index Abstracts

VLADIMIR BENACEK IES FSV UK FRITZ BREUSS WIFO Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna JOHN D. DANIELS Samuel Friedland Chair, University of Miami CHRISTIAN BELLAK Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien BRANKO MILANOVIC The World Bank IVAN RIBNIKAR Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana MATIJA ROJEC Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana MARKO SIMONETI CEEPN MARKO REMS CEEPN