Banking and Monetary Policy in Eastern Europe

At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before. A decade later, high-level practitioners and well-known experts take stock of banking and monetary policy in the region, centring on: the governance of banks; the spread of financial crisis; and, perspectives for monetary policy and banking sector development.

ZSOFIA ARVAI Economics and Research Department, National Bank of HungaryGERWIN BELL Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund's European I DepartmentPETER BOFINGER Professor of Economics, University of WürzburgLAJOS BOKROS Director of Financial Advisory Service, Europe and Central Asia, The World BankCLAUDIA BUCH Head of Research Group, Financial Markets, Kiel Institute of World EconomicsCHRISTA HAINZ Economics Postgraduate, Lugwig-Maximilians-University, MunichWERNER NEUHAUSS Senior Project Manager and Financial Sector Specialist, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Germany's Development Bank, FrankfurtZBIGNIEW POLANSKI Professor of Money and Banking, Warsaw School of Economics and Advisor to the President of the National Bank of PolandMONIKA SCHNITZER Professor of Economics, Lugwig-Maximilians-UniversityJÁNOS VINCZE Advisor, Research and Economics Department, National Bank of HungaryTIMO WOLLMERSHÄUSER Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of WürzburgCLAUS-PETER ZEITINGER Founder and Managing Director, Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC) GmbH, Frankfurt