Product Description: The European economy is emerging from its deepest recession since the 1930s. This volume, which brings together economic analysis from the European Commission services, explains how swift policy response avoided a financial meltdown; but turning the ongoing recovery into sustained growth requires action on five challenges: boosting potential output, enhancing labour market flexibility, preparing fiscal consolidation, facilitating intra-EU adjustment, and unwinding global imbalances...read more

Product Description: The economic transformation of Hungary has reached a critical stage. This book presents some of the local arguments and perceptions informing the current debate, and critical examination of these ideas by an international panel of scholars...read more

Product Description: A collection of articles on key questions and problems facing the transitional economies in the sphere of monetary policy and the financial sector. Looks at types of reforms considered, why these proved necessary, and the implications of the actual developments in the initial stages of the transition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book identifies differences and similarities between the formerly centrally planned economies of the Eastern Bloc and those of Western Europe. The authors use up-to-date information on East-West trade flows to analyze emerging patterns of industrial and trade specialization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The introduction of effective, competitive and innovative financial systems will be a key factor in the economic success, or failure, of Central and Eastern Europe. This important volume presents a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the development of financial systems in the region with contributions from leading researchers and bankers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An empirical economist can hardly avoid understanding and interpreting econometric analysis, let alone doing it. This book aims to help economists facing practical problems in their applied work. It discusses the circumstances under which a method can be used, its properties, and the situations, where it may be useful or where it is misleading...read more