Central bankers and financial regulators in East Central Europe and the Balkans regularly
employed macroprudential policy before the global financial crisis and continue to be …

Abstract When the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International
Monetary Fund provided financial assistance to crisis-ridden European countries, they …

Abstract The East-Central European countries that joined the EU in the 2000s are the
unsung success of economic development. This paper discusses the consolidation of an …

Abstract Research on the Economic Adjustment Programmes (EAPs) for Eurozone crisis
countries has so far acknowledged the role of creditor countries and Troika institutions or …

The authors take a novel look at recent Hungarian economic policy achievements of Orban
governments. Compared to the Hungarian economic policies of the 2000s and the decades …

Since the global financial crisis, for IPE scholars a core intellectual puzzle is to explain the
rise of financial nationalist governments into power and their sustained capacity to pursue …

The chapter by Susanne Lütz et al. looks at the troika (now sometimes referred to as the
'quadriga'to include the European Stability Mechanism) institutions that were charged with …

Financial nationalism is on the rise. Countries from the United States (US), Russia, China,
and Taiwan, to Germany and Hungary, embrace financial nationalist policies although to …

This chapter discusses varieties in Euro accession in Romania and Bulgaria by pointing to
the centrality of historical path-dependencies in the policy regime and of exports in the …

Cooperation between central banks has been crucial for stabilising the international
financial system during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 …