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restructuring. She is a former Fulbright Professor, University of California
at Berkeley, and Visiting Professor, UMASS at Amherst and Lowell. She
also served as Regional Officer for rural development through entrepreneurship
for Europe at UN-FAO, Rome. Publications include ‘Promoting
entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe’ (co-authors L. D’Andrea Tyson and
R. Halsey), Small Business Economics (1994); Industrial Policy Supporting
Economic Transition in Central-Eastern Europe, Lessons from Slovenia,
Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley,
1995; and ‘Industrial policy and the restructuring of firms in postsocialist
Slovenia’, Review of Industrial Organization, 1996.
Milica Uvalić is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Political
Sciences, University of Perugia. She obtained her BA (1975) and MA
(1979) in Economics from the University of Belgrade, and a PhD in
Economics (1988) from the European University Institute, Florence,
where she was Research Fellow before moving to the University of
Perugia in 1992. She has been Consultant to the Commission of the
European Communities both for former Yugoslavia (1991) and for
Employee Participation in Western Europe (1991–2), and more recently
to the ILO (1994–6) and to Governor Avramović of the National Bank
of Yugoslavia (1996), for privatization. She is author of Investment and
Property Rights in Yugoslavia – The Long Transition to a Market Economy
(CUP, 1992) and of The PEPPER Report (European Communities, 1992);
co-editor of Impediments to the Transition in Eastern Europe (EUI Florence,
1992), Privatization Surprises in Transition Economics (Edward Elgar, 1997,
reprinted in March 1999); The Balkans and the Challenge of Economic
Integration (Longo Editore, 1997); and Advances in the Economic Analysis of
Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Volume 6 (1998). Together with
Will Bartlett, she edits the journal Economic Analysis – The Journal of
Enterprise and Participation (Carfax, starting from 1998). Since 1993,
she has been coordinator of the Economics Group of Experts of the
International Network Europe and the Balkans based at the University of
Bologna.
Alesa Vahcaica is Professor of Economics and Business and Head of the
Statistical Data Service in the Faculty of Economics, University of
Ljubljana. He obtained his BA in Economics from the University of
Ljubljana, MA in Economics from Louisiana State University (New
Orleans), and PhD in Economics from Cornell University. He has
served as Advisor to the Government of Slovenia for small business
development and entrepreneurship. He was founder and co-founder
of several enterprises in Slovenia, including GEA College, a successful