The past 25 years have seen a dramatic transformation in Europe’s former communist countries, resulting in their reintegration with the global economy, and, in most cases, major improvements in living standards. But the task of building full market economies has been difficult and protracted....

We analyze the effect of IMF programs on economic agents'' expectations about the economy in transitional countries using survey data from the Central and Eastern Eurobarometer poll, an annual general public survey monitoring the evolution of public opinion from 1990 to 1997. Previous studies,...

This paper makes use of the IMF’s Database for Monitoring Fund Arrangements (MONA) to investigate whether transition countries that more successfully implement the conditionality of IMF programs tend to show a better performance on recovery and growth. It is not possible to determine a...

Die Steuerreformen in den Transformationsländern Osteuropas wurden von wirtschaftlichen Beratern mitgestaltet. Bedeutsam ist die steuerpolitische Beratung des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF). Der Verfasser wirft grundsätzliche Fragen auf.