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The Financial Situation of Polish Enterprises 1992-93 and its Impact on Monetary and Fiscal Policies

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  • Stanislaw Gomulka

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This is the first detailed study of enterprise finances in a country of Central and Eastern Europe during transition. It is based on enterprise data collected monthly by the Polish Central Statistical Office. Its primary purpose is to provide answers to questions about the size of enterprise debt, particularly bad debt, to banks, other enterprises, and the government; about its distributions by sector of activity and type of ownership; and about its evolution over time. The central findings are, firstly, that the bad debt is a large proportion of total debt, both to banks and enterprises, and, secondly, that it is highly concentrated. The study identifies enterprises, in terms of sales (and possibly employment) representing about a tenth of the whole enterprise sector, whose debt in relation to the total income of these enterprises is particularly large. In terms of financial situation and the softness of the budget constraint, these enterprises have been (and are) distinctly different than most other enterprises, forming effectively a 'black hole' of the economy. The Polish enterprise sector has thus been found to have, in 1992-3, a heavily pronounced dual structure: about 90% of it is almost debt-free while about 10% of it has accumulated large debts to banks, the government and other enterprises. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policies of the central authorities and for the lending policy of commercial banks.

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  • Stanislaw Gomulka, 1993. "The Financial Situation of Polish Enterprises 1992-93 and its Impact on Monetary and Fiscal Policies," CASE Network Studies and Analyses 0006, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
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    1. David Begg & Richard Portes, 1993. "Enterprise debt and economic transformation (Financial restructuring of the state sector in Central and Eastern Europe)," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 1(1), pages 116-117, January.
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