Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Introduction / Morten Balling
  • chapter 1 Financial-sector development as a tool for EU accession / Luigi Passamonti
  • chapter 2 Factors influencing the financial system stability-oriented policies of a small country soon to become an EU Member
  • The Estonian experience / Vahur Kraft
  • chapter 3 The role of central banks in promoting financial stability
  • The Hungarian experience / Zsigmond Járai
  • chapter 4 Banking sector development and economic growth in transition countries / Tuuli Koivu
  • chapter 5 Financial-sector macro-efficiency
  • Concepts, measurement, theoretical and empirical evidence / Gerhard Fink
  • chapter 6 Financial-sector efficiency
  • The impact of policy and the road ahead / C. Maxwell Watson
  • chapter 7 Challenging the prudential supervisor - liability versus (regulatory) immunity
  • Lessons from the EU experience for Central and Eastern European countries / MICHEL TISON
  • chapter 8 Reforms enhancing the efficiency of the financial sector and the implications of future EU membership LELO LIIVE / Lelo Liive
  • chapter 9 The effect of foreign bank entry on domestic banks in Central and Eastern Europe / Peter Zajc
  • chapter 10 Are foreign banks in Central and Eastern Europe more efficient than domestic banks? / Christopher J. Green
  • chapter 11 The efficiency of banking systems in CEE
  • Inequality and convergence to the EU / Mariana Tomova
  • chapter 12 The internationalization of Estonian banks
  • Inward versus outward penetration / Mart Sõrg
  • chapter 13 An early-warning model for currency crises in Central and Eastern Europe / Franz Schardax
  • chapter 14 Institutional vulnerability indicators for currency crises in Central and Eastern European countries / Dirk Effenberger
  • chapter 15 Financial stability and the design of monetary policy / Alicia García Herrero and Pedro del Río.