The increasing incidence and intensity of crises in the international financial markets during the 1990s have given new impetus to the debate on reform of the international financial system. Much of the discussion focuses on the idea of an international lender of last resort which could provide...

Zehn Jahre nach Beginn des Reformprozesses in Mittel- und Osteuropa stehen der Aufbau eines leistungsfähigen Sektors privater kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) sowie die Gestaltung eines effizienten Finanzsystems im Mittelpunkt der Bemühungen der wirtschaftspolitisch Verantwortlichen vor...

This paper reviews financial stability challenges in the EU candidate countries Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It examines the fi nancial sectors in these three economies, which, while at very different stages of development and embedded in quite diverse economic...

This paper reviews the economic, monetary and financial relations between the EU and the euro area and a set of countries in a broad set of neighbouring regions. The 80 or so countries are mostly classified as transition, emerging or developing economies and belong to four main regions: the...