Banking and Monetary Policy in Eastern Europe: The First Ten Years

Product Description At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before. A decade later, high-level practitioners and well-known experts take stock of banking and monetary policy in the region, centring on: the governance of banks; the spread of financial crisis; and, perspectives for monetary policy and banking sector development. About the Author ZSOFIA ARVAI Economics and Research Department, National Bank of Hungary GERWIN BELL Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund's European I Department PETER BOFINGER Professor of Economics, University of Würzburg LAJOS BOKROS Director of Financial Advisory Service, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank CLAUDIA BUCH Head of Research Group, Financial Markets, Kiel Institute of World Economics CHRISTA HAINZ Economics Postgraduate, Lugwig-Maximilians-University, Munich WERNER NEUHAUSS Senior Project Manager and Financial Sector Specialist, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Germany's Development Bank, Frankfurt ZBIGNIEW POLANSKI Professor of Money and Banking, Warsaw School of Economics and Advisor to the President of the National Bank of Poland MONIKA SCHNITZER Professor of Economics, Lugwig-Maximilians-University JÁNOS VINCZE Advisor, Research and Economics Department, National Bank of Hungary TIMO WOLLMERSHÄUSER Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Würzburg CLAUS-PETER ZEITINGER Founder and Managing Director, Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC) GmbH, Frankfurt