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Fast-developing markets in Estonia

The paper concentrates primarily on the development of the Estonian consumer market in 1992-1994, the first years of free market economy. The changes in the market are examined from the point of view of different indicators: objective ones, such as...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Triin Vihalemm

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 1, 1995

The dangers in hidden assumptions

This paper discusses the assumptions implicit in much advertising used in Western European countries and how these are not always appropriate to what are often new markets in Central and Eastern Europe. In the same was as all Western European...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Mary Short

April 1, 1995

Household-portfolios of micro economic behaviour in post communist societies

This paper is analysing the micro-economic behaviour of households in seven post- Communist societies: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The first chapter of the paper is describing the structure and the...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Authors: Christian W. Haerpfer, Heinz J. Zeilhofer

April 1, 1995

Producer has changed. Consumer has changed. What about the distributor?

A lot has already been said here about changes. Changes in the economy, in aspirations and social values, changes in attitudes, changes in consumer behaviour, changes in producers’ behaviour. Retail and wholesale trade belonged to the areas...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Tomás Drtina

April 1, 1995

Adapting to the changing environment

This paper describes the development of the model to deal with changes in one of the organisations so far studied in Slovenia. It has been an achievement of the type of model used that this process could all be accommodated. However, it emerged that...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Authors: Carla Millar, Stane Saksida, Tit Turnsek

April 1, 1995

The health insurance system

The paper discusses the benefit of the introducing of the health insurance system in the Czech Republic. It explains the role of particular subjects of the system : government, health insurance companies, providers of the health care and clients....

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Vojtech Spacil

April 1, 1995

Measurement of the objective and subjective speed of inflation

This paper is devoted to a discussion of the influence of high inflation economies dominated in most countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on the choice of marketing strategy and the ways to measure the speed of inflation. The first...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Anna V. Andreenkova

Company: CESSI- Institute for Comparative Social Research

April 1, 1995

Consumer patriotism in Central and Eastern Europe

We have focused our attention in this study on the situation with daily commodities. Food, beverages and chemical products are bought most frequently, hence it is well possible to examine consumer preferences with regard to international versus local...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Peter Damisch

Company: GfK

April 1, 1995

Branding in Central and Eastern Europe

In this paper we describe the findings of major global study as they apply to Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided into two parts. In the first part we describe some of the technical issues involved in conducting so large a study in this region....

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Jim Williams

April 1, 1995