This study focuses on the role of financial development in the economic growth of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries in the post-communist era (1995–2014), which coincides with the opening up of financial markets to foreign investors and the global financial crisis....

We investigate whether foreign ownership in the banking sector is a key determinant of its stability in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries, as there is no consensus in the current literature on emerging markets. To this end, we introduce a financial strength index...

In this paper, we investigate the credit growth of foreign-owned banks in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe from 2000 to 2014. We intend to show whether foreign capital in the banking sector should be treated as a monolith, as it currently is in the literature. To this end, we analyse...