The opening up of Central and Eastern Europe has provided new investment opportunities for German investors. At the same time, importing capital from abroad can be an efficient mechanism towards increased factor accumulation for the accession states to the European Union. In this paper, we study...

Capital flight has characterized the transformation process in Russia. Inflows of foreign direct investment have been minor and have been preceeded by inflows of portfolio capital. The paper shows that uncertainty about macroeconomic stabilization exhibits a strong negative effect on the volume...

This paper applies the arguments of institutional economics to the issue of banking system reform. Institutional reforms are of particular importance in the financial sphere because banking operations were heavily restricted under central planning and, at the same time, banks are assigned a...

Anhand der Reihenfolgentheorie lassen sich die wichtigsten Bereiche der Politik identifizieren: institutionelle Reformen, fiskale und monetäre Stabilisierung, Reform der Finanzmärkte, Liberalisierung des Handels und des Kapitalverkehrs sowie die Privatisierung. Die Verschärfung von...