The Polish Car Market: A Distorted Reflection of Change in Poland.
Eugenieusz Smikowski Piotr Kwiatkowski and Jacek Mlynarski PENTOR Institute for Opinion & Market Research, Poland
THE PHENOMENAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE CAR MARKET
Doubtlessly, a phenomenon of the Polish structural changes is the high growth in durable consumer goods owned by households, in parallel to an economic breakdown and a fall in real incomes in the 1989-1992 period. An excellent example of this marvel are privately owned passenger cars.
Owing to the creation of a free, unbridled market, between 1989 and 1993 almost two million...