Banking Reforms in South-East Europe

ISBN-13: 9781840643770 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 360 str.

Zeljko Sevic

Opis

This volume offers a critical and detailed overview of banking system restructuring in transitional countries of South-Eastern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Yugoslavia - and offers suggestions for future reforms. The book opens with a comparison of the experiences of Central European advanced transitional economies with those of Balkan countries. Proposals are put forward for ways in which positive aspects of the Central European experience can be applied to banking reform in the Balkans. The authors examine the importance of regional collaboration for the overall economic and social transition in the region,and consider whether it can facilitate the next stage of banking reform. They also analyze the results of currency board arrangements as a possible alternative to classical central baking, using the experiences of Bulgaria, Bosnia and the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro. The book concludes with an analysis of the experience of individual economies and consists of a number of country-specific banking studies, covering all the transitional economies of South-East Europe.