The latest global financial and economic crisis of 2008 has shown the need to re-examine the desirability of financial liberalization. This book is undertaking such a study on the issue of financial and market liberalization by adopting sophisticated econometric methods. It examines the effects...

This paper studies the experience of Latin-America [LATAM] with financial liberalization in the 1990s. The rush towards financial liberalizations in the early 1990s was associated with expectations that external financing would alleviate the scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing...

This paper reviews the published work on the governance of regulatory authorities in order to identify the basic governance standards that apply and some of the factors that affect the implementation of good governance. There are four pillars of good regulatory governance: independence,...

1. Conceptualizing Europeanization : theoretical approaches and research designs / Krzysztof Wach -- 2. Europeanization of public policies : myths and paradoxes / Rafał Riedel -- 3. Europeanization of urban governance : definitions, dimensions and perspectives / Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka -- 4....