Regulating Banks in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The Quest for Financial Stability: Determinants of Regulatory Approach in Banking Supervision

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4. Economic Reform Path and Bank Privatization

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5. Institutional Design of Banking Supervision in Central and Eastern Europe and Party Politics

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6. Banking Supervision Approaches during Credit Booms

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7. At the EU Negotiating Table: What Role for National Bank Supervisors after EU Accession?

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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How do bank supervisors strike a balance between market self-regulation and pro-active regulatory intervention? This book investigates the choice of banking supervision approach in four European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe – Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, and Slovenia – after their transition to democracy and market economy.

• bank
• banking
• democracy
• economy
• EU accession
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Institution
• intervention
• market economy
• privatization
• transition
• european union politics

“This book explores the theory and practice of how countries choose bank regulatory apparati, with a particular focus on the historical context of central and eastern European regulatory regimes. … This book is a good read for anyone interested in political economic theories of financial regulation, and particularly good for those interested in eastern and central European – as well as western European – experiences in those fields.” (Nina Quinn Eichacker, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (1), 2016)

• Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

  Aneta Spendzharova

Aneta Spendzharova is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her research interests are in the areas of comparative political economy, banking supervision, and European Union politics. Her research has appeared in journals such as Journal of International Political Economy and Journal of Common Market Studies.

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