Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Theory -- 1 Pricing-to-Market, the Interest-Rate Rule, and the Exchange Rate -- 2 Optimal Exchange RateRegimes: Turning Mundell-Fleming's Dictum on Its Head -- 3 Monetary Policy Rules,...

This Policy Brief discusses the growth prospects of the Central and Eastern European (CEEC) region following the current economic crisis. It argues that the "integration model of growth" of the CEEC region was characterised by a very high degree of external liberalisation. In one group of...

Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the...