Department of Economic Sciences

This report is one of the results of the research project funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) entitled “State and economic freedom. Theory and practice of transition” (DEC-2011/01/B/HS4/00802). The aim of this report is to present and evaluate the changes which have taken place in institutions of 28 transition countries after 1989. Institutions are here understood as formal rules, including procedural and regulatory institutional solutions determining the economic and political structure of a country. Bearing this in mind, the report provides an analysis of the political system (democracy or dictatorship) and the efficiency of the state institutions, i.e. whether they ensure economic freedom and good governance. Also institutional solutions created by states were analysed, with focus on two areas particularly important for the economy: the labour market and the banking sector.

Raport jest jednym z rezultatów projektu badawczego finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki pt. „Państwo wobec wolności gospodarczej. Teoria i praktyka transformacji” (DEC-2011/01/B/HS4/00802). Celem raportu jest syntetyczna prezentacja i ocena zmian instytucji w 28 krajach transformujących się po 1989 roku. Instytucje te są rozumiane jako formalne reguły gry, które stanowią proceduralne i regulacyjne rozwiązania instytucjonalne określające strukturę gospodarczą i polityczną kraju. Mając powyższe na uwadze, w raporcie poddano analizie przede wszystkim ustrój polityczny (demokracja czy dyktatura) i sprawność instytucji państwa, tj. zapewnienia przez nie wolności gospodarczej i jakości rządzenia. Badano także rozwiązania instytucjonalne tworzone przez państwo dla dwóch, mających wielkie znaczenie w gospodarce, obszarów - rynku pracy i sektora bankowego.

One of the essential problems of economics is still a matter of state intervention. It differs economists for supporters and opponents of the interventionist policy. In the study the authors made an attempt to point at reasons for self-government appearance and its tasks in the light of market and government failure conception.

The paper presents the process of liberalization of bank services market in Poland since the beginning of the 1980s. to join the European Union. This process was divided into four principal stages. Their separation corresponds with introducing of essential legislative changes in banking sector functioning, i.e. banking law amendments in 1982 and 1989, formal admitting foreign banks to operate on Polish market since the beginning of 1999 and joining the EU in 2004. Liberalization of Polish bank
services market is analysed on the basis of the well-known market structures classification such as: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly. Transition from the stale monopoly in bank services providing to monopolistic competition between commercial banks is presented on such a theoretical background.

Outplacement is a rare HRM tool; hence there is also a lack of research on it. In turn, banks are treated as enterprises that implemented modern management solutions faster than other companies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The bank is a good entity for outplacement testing. Both Poland and Russia belong to the CEE countries. The Polish economy has been promoted to a group of developed countries. The Polish banking sector relies much more on foreign capital than in Russia, which may be important for the development of outplacement. The main aim of this paper is to reveal and explain the differences in the popularity of outplacement in Russian and Polish banks. This article uses survey data collected in Poland and Russia from over 2,000 bank employees. Mann-Whitney test, correlations and discriminant analysis were used. Employees of the Polish banking sector more often than Russian workers noted the absence of any support for dismissed workers (Poland 30%, Russia 23...