i. Introduction -- ii. Germandom Organizations in the Reich -- iii. Sudeten Germandom Organizations -- iv. The Fronts Begin to Form -- v. The Situation in Flux -- vi. The Traditionalists under Siege -- vii. The Sudeten Problem Internationalized -- viii. The SS and SD Enter Volkstumspolitik --...

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled by an identifiable entity called "the state". This, however, is no longer the case. Since the demise of tight central planning, the nominally state-owned enterprises are de facto...

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...