, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes – including diminished support for …

Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline … and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … participation of foreign banks. By the mid 2000s the banking sectors in many transition countries were dominated by foreign owners …

data from 25 transition economies. The results indicate that price liberalisation has a positive impact on fiscal … somewhat in contrast with earlier empirical work and theoretical transition economics that maintain fiscal pressures are most …

The paper analyses fiscal competition for mobile capital between identical regions in a transition country. A framework … transition when the share of the old sector is overwhelming, consumers in a transition economy may be better off in a competitive …

The relationship between financial sector and economic growth in transition countries has been largely ignored in the … unbalanced panel data from 25 transition countries during the period 1993-2000. We measure the qualitative development in the … accelerate economic growth. The main reasons behind this result could be the numerous banking crises the transition countries …

This paper discusses recent bank runs in seven transition economies (Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia …

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater …

Growth regressions have provided important insights into the impact of economic reforms on growth in transition … restructuring affect growth negatively. Swift reform policies allow transition countries to benefit from higher growth for a longer …