"CURRENT TRENDS IN THE RUSSIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM" Edited by Morten Balling Chapters by: Stephan Barisitz Zeljko Bogetic Zuzana Fungacova and Laura...

This paper provides an overview of the history of banking transition (1989-2006) in 13 CEE countries – with particular emphasis on four relatively large Balkan countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro). Two “banking reform waves” are distinguished, salient features of...

This paper offers an analytical overview of exchange rate regimes and monetary policy frameworks in the countries of Southeastern Europe and Turkey. The following ten countries/nonsovereign territories are analyzed here: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, the Former...

CIS Central Asia’s structural heterogeneity may have deepened since the global crisis of 2008–09. Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are relatively rich oil and gas exporters, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan are poor energy importers, and Uzbekistan is a more diversified but still rather poor...