More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

The main causes of the current Euro crisis are: 1) its premature birth, before the earlier stages of political and fiscal integration, and integration of defense and foreign policy; 2) the diminished nature of the European Central Bank, which is not only independent, like the Fed, the Bank of...