EPSTEIN, RACHEL A.; JOHNSON, JULIET - In: Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (2010) 11, pp. 1237-1260
Although central and eastern European states widely adopted central bank independence in the 1990s, many later baulked at meeting the Maastricht criteria and adopting the euro. We employ two key variables - regime and institutional "discontinuity" at the domestic level and the "credibility" of...