The Role of Financial Markets in the Transition Process

Financial Markets play an important role in economic development, channeling saving to investments and facilitating growth. In Eastern Europe financial markets were initially much underdeveloped, and lacked the skills and infrastructure they needed to be efficient, having not acquired them in the pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Colombo, Emilio (Editor), Driffill, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Financial Markets play an important role in economic development, channeling saving to investments and facilitating growth. In Eastern Europe financial markets were initially much underdeveloped, and lacked the skills and infrastructure they needed to be efficient, having not acquired them in the pre-transition era. The book offers a both theoretical and empirical analysis of financial markets in transitional economies. It investigates financial markets in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland, and their role in the developments in the 1990s
Physical Description:VIII, 228 p. 6 illus online resource
ISBN:9783642573729