In der vorliegenden Studie untersucht der Verfasser erkennbare Bestimmungsfaktoren auf ihre kooperationsfördernde bzw. kooperationshemmende Wirkung, erörtert zeitweilig unterbreitete Modellvorschläge, analysiert aktuelle Modelle regionaler Kooperationspraxis und versucht, in diesem Kontext...

The paper discusses factors likely to shape the nature and pace of economic growth of five Central European transition countries now engaged in accession to the European Union. It is organized around the standard growth accounting framework. The paper reviews the growth of these countries since...

This paper examines the philosophies which inspired the institution of central banking in Central and Eastern Europe in the interwar years. Influenced by the Financial Section of the League of Nations, the new central banks adopted laws which prohibited or severely restricted the financing of...

The aim of this paper is to construct a comprehensive and consistent dataset to analyze the potential risks from foreign bank lending, for both the creditor and borrower countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE). We develop a picture of bank claims on 13 CESE countries by...

The paper investigates the non-performing loans (NPLs) in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESEE) in the period of 1998–2011. The paper finds that the level of NPLs can be attributed to both macroeconomic conditions and banks’ specific factors, though the latter set of factors was...

In den Ländern des früheren Sowjetblocks ist es den KP-Nachfolgeparteien überall gelungen, den Zusammenbruch des kommunistischen Systems zu überleben und teilweise sogar relativ starke Vertretungen in die Parlamente zu entsenden. Diese Situation stellt einen zusätzlichen Unsicherheitsfaktor...