Focusing upon the rich interplay between ongoing institutional and technological changes, the dynamics of national industrial systems and the modifications in policy instruments of the new economic framework of the common market and the single currency, European Economies in Transition addresses key issues for growth and convergence. A set of methodologies highlighting the structural aspects and discontinuities in such dynamics reveals new features of transition processes experienced by some of the most advanced Western economies.

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BERNARD BOEHM Professor of Economics and Applied Econometrics, University of Technology, Vienna JACQUES DE BANDT Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Professor, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis JAN GADOMSKI Senior Researcher, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences DANIELA GEORGUS Ministry for Justice, Federal and European Affairs of the Land, Schleswig-Holstein MARIO A. MAGGIONO Lecturer in Economics, Catholic University, Milan BRUNO MICONI (deceased) sometime Professor of Economics, University of Siena UGO PAGANO Professor of Economics, University of Siena MICHEL QUÉRÉ Research Fellow at CNRS-IDEFI/LATAPSES IRENA WORONIECKA Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Notes on the Contributors PART I: MONEY AND INDUSTRY The Economics of the European Monetary Integration and the Convergence Problem; F.Farina Dynamical Structural Change in Selected European Countries, with a Comparison with Japan and the US; B.Boehm & L.F.Punzo Emergence and Development of the Service Economy in the European Union; J.De Bandt PART II: GOVERNMENT, GOVERNANCE Lean Government: Goals and Problems; O.Fabel & B.Miconi Long-Term Care Insurance, Savings, and Strategic Bequests; O.Fabel & D.Georgus Innovation, Growth, and Coordination through Institutions: A Discussion about 'Innovation Systems'; M.Quéré Intersectoral Innovation Flows within and between Nations and Regions: Network Analysis and Systems of Innovation; M.A.Maggiono PART III: TRANSITION, FROM WHERE TO WHERE Structure and Productivity During a Simulated Transition: The Polish Case; J.Gadomski & I.Woroniecka Transition and the 'Speciation' of the Japanese Model; U.Pagano Index