Economic Efficiency in Transition: The Case of Ukraine

Abstract

Although a market economy is by definition more effective than a centrally planned economy, various countries in transition have faced the problem of economic inefficiency. The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive measure of economic efficiency using the production function framework and estimate it for the Ukraine economy. There exist namely a vast amount of indicators that support our hypothesis on the diminishing efficiency of the Ukraine economy in the last years. Our in-depth analysis shows that the diminishing efficiency is a consequence of ineffective investments and innovations as well as of an increasing intensity of materials use.economic efficiency, productivity, factors, labour, capital