The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of … FTEs. The desire to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU spurred major reform waves and led to the introduction of … institutions. The Washington institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Following the start of the EU …

The paper analyzes foreign exchange market volatility in four Central European EU accession countries in 2001-2003. By …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the … EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very rapid introduction of best-practice institutions. Although social … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …

The EU member states in CESEE have converged relatively rapidly to the global frontier, some even during the recent … numbers also do so. EU membership has and will in the future potentially help convergence through several private and public … channels, but in itself EU membership is not a guarantee for continued convergence. Reforms will be needed to utilise this …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the … EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very rapid introduction of best-practice institutions. Although social … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …

The paper analyzes foreign exchange market volatility in four Central European EU accession countries in 2001-2003. By …