1. Emerging Balkans in Transition -- 2. Financial Globalization -- 3. Trade in Services, Regional Integration and EU Accession Process -- 4. Banking in Transition: On the Road to Success -- 5. Does Stock Market Development Cause Growth? -- 6. Recent Financial Sector Developments in the Emerging...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign-owned banks for credit growth, financial stability and economic growth in the post-communist European countries. Using data covering 20 countries over the period from 1995 to 2015, the authors analyse the evolution of banking sectors...

Chapter 1. From Pandemics to the Unconventional Monetary Policy in EMs: The Case of Croatia -- Chapter 2. Financial Cycle Convergence: Evidence on Financial Cycles Synchronisation in the European Union and the European Economic and Monetary Union -- Chapter 3. Fiscal Response to the COVID-19...

1. From good bankers to bad bankers -- 2. The Spanish banking crisis of the 1970s and 1980s -- 3. The microeconomic roots of the banking crisis -- 4. Bank reform in eastern Europe -- 5. ‘False friends' and banking reform -- 6. The dynamics of undisclosed insolvency -- 7. Obstacles in the way...

Introduction -- The Rise and Development of Non-traditional Banking Business in China -- The Impact of Income Diversification on Chinese Banks: Bank Performance -- The Impact of Income Diversification on Chinese Banks: Bank Risk -- The Impact of Income Diversification on Chinese Banks: Bank...

Part I The modern experience of fighting climate change based on the opportunities of Industry 4.0 -- Chapter 1 Industry 4.0 as the basis of fighting climate change in developed countries -- Chapter 2 Developing countries on the path to sustainable development: technological provision of...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: State Corporate Control in Transition: Research Perspectives -- Chapter 3: State Corporate Control in Transition: Challenges and Goals -- Chapter 4: Evolution of the State Corporate Control in Poland during the Transition -- Chapter 5: State Corporate...

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

Chapter 1. Public Service Reform in the Republic of Armenia: Challenges and Lessons Learnt -- Chapter 2. Indispensability and main directions of reforms in the civil service system of the Republic of Azerbaijan -- Chapter 3. Reform of the civil service in the Republic of Belarus: Challenges and...

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book...