The Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economies provides a comprehensive A-Z resource to the study of emerging and transition economies.

Table of Contents

• List of Boxes
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Monetary Aspects
• 1 Central Bank Independence in Transition Economies - JANE BOGOEV AND GORAN PETREVSKI
• 2 Currency Reforms in Emerging-Market and Transition Economies - KARSTEN STAEHR
• 3 Financial Sector Restructuring in Transition and Emerging Market Economies - ANDY MULLINEUX
• 4 The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging-Market and Transition Economies - KARSTEN STAEHR
• 5 Monetary Stabilization - ZBIGNIEW POLAŃSKI
• 6 Regional Monetary Cooperation in Emerging, Transition, and Developing Economies - BARBARA FRITZ AND LAURISSA MÜHLICH
• Part II Institution Building
• 7 Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Socialist Countries - MARTIN MYANT
• 8 Institutional Reform: Irresistible Forces and Immovable Objects - CHRISTOPHER A. HARTWELL
• 9 Property Rights in Transition Countries - CHRISTOPHER A. HARTWELL
• 10 Corporate Governance: Towards a New Foundation for both Developed and Transition Economies - STEVE LETZA
• 11 Business Constraints in Low Income Transition Countries of Central Asia - KHURSHID DJALILOV
• Part III Economic Policy
• 12 Human Development and Economic Growth - ENRICA CHIAPPERO-MARTINETTI, NADIA VON JACOBI, AND MARCELLO SIGNORELLI
• 13 Competition Policy - JENS HÖLSCHER
• 14 The Access of Central and Eastern European Countries to the European Union - PASQUALE TRIDICO
• 15 Sustainability of Public Budgets - CHRISTOPHER HARTWELL AND MARCELLO SIGNORELLI
• 16 The ‘Bad-Asset Problem’ - HORST TOMANN
• Part IV Growth and Development
• 17 Entrepreneurship - SUKANYA AYATAKSHI
• 18 Innovation - JUTTA GÜNTHER
• 19 Migration - MEHDI CHOWDHURY AND HENRY TELLI
• 20 Trade Liberalization - SANJAYA ACHARYA
• 21 Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies of Europe and the Former Soviet Union - GODWIN OKAFOR AND ALLAN WEBSTER
• Part V Wellbeing
• 22 Convergence and Divergence - GUINEVERE NELL AND MARCELLO SIGNORELLI
• 23 Income Distribution - CRISTIANO PERUGINI AND FABRIZIO POMPEI
• 24 Corporate Social Responsibility: A New Business Philosophy - SERHIY LYEONOV, TETYANA VASYLYEVA, AND ANNA LASUKOVA
• 25 Mass Privatization - DARJA IRDAM, GÁBOR SCHEIRING, AND LAWRENCE KING
• 26 Employees Financial Participation - DERMOT MCCARTHY
• 27 Trust - ANNA REBMANN
• 28 Happiness in Transition - EKATERINA SELEZNEVA
• NAME INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX