Dollarization, Euroization and Financial Instability
IPE Vienna has published the book Dollarization, Euroization and Financial Instability. Central and Eastern European Countries between Stagnation and Financial Crisis?
Nov. 22, 2007 read more »»
Transborder Laboratory for Cooperation from Below (II)
The Economic and Society Trust, Paulo Freire Centre, IPE, and the EU Research Projects Demologos and Kartarsis invited critical social researchers and grassroots activists to an experimental transborder laboratory looking at cooperation from below. Part II.
Nov. 20, 2007 read more »»
Transborder Laboratory for Cooperation from Below (I)
The Economic and Society Trust, Paulo Freire Centre, IPE, and the EU Research Projects Demologos and Kartarsis invited critical social researchers and grassroots activists to an experimental transborder laboratory looking at cooperation from below. Part I.
Nov. 19, 2007 read more »»
Trade Unions and Civil Society: Joint Action in the EU
Social scientists and activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) discussed at a seminar in Vienna issues of foreign direct investments and their disputed role in economic development. Part II.
Jul. 09, 2007 read more »»
Addiction to FDI? Arguing against a Mainstream Discourse
Social scientists and activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) discussed at a seminar in Vienna issues of foreign direct investments and their disputed role in economic development.
Jul. 06, 2007 read more »»
Essentially a Colonial Exploitation*
After a lengthy negotiation process the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) won the ultimate prize – full EU membership. The author analyzes the Hungarian experience.
Apr. 30, 2007 read more »»
Serbia: Tug of War over Remains of Yugoslavia (IV)
The struggle over the future of former Yugoslav lands has entered another decisive period. Part IV: Blueprint for further disintegration.
Feb. 16, 2007 read more »»
Serbia: Tug of War over Remains of Yugoslavia (III)
The struggle over the future of former Yugoslav lands has entered another decisive period. Part III: Disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia.
Feb. 14, 2007 read more »»
Serbia: Tug of War over Remains of Yugoslavia (II)
The struggle over the future of former Yugoslav lands has entered another decisive period. Part II: ICTY and War Against Yugoslavia.
Feb. 06, 2007 read more »»
Serbia: Tug of War over Remains of Yugoslavia (I)
The struggle over the future of former Yugoslav lands has entered another decisive period. Part I: Parliamentary Elections in Serbia 2007.
Feb. 01, 2007 read more »»
Much Continuity, Little Change
Street protests by university students have accompanied the swearing in of the new coalition government of social democrats and liberal conservatives in Austria.
Jan. 16, 2007 read more »»
Slovak National Bank Intervenes in Forex Market
The end of December 2006 brought a record level of the Slovak koruna. The Slovak National Bank reacted against the appreciation with an intervention in the foreign exchange (forex) market.
Jan. 04, 2007 read more »»
Slovakia: External Deficits and the Euro
Mid-December 2006, the governor of the Slovak National Bank, Ivan Šramko, voiced preoccupation concerning the strong appreciation of the Slovak koruna.
Dec. 27, 2006 read more »»
"FDI is a religion"
Participants from Central and Eastern Europe discussed issues of EU-Enlargement, financial crisis, and the introduction of the Euro at the seminar EU-Enlargement: New Members – Old Periphery? Part II.
Dec. 11, 2006 read more »»
Between Scylla and Charybdis?
Participants from Central and Eastern Europe discussed issues of EU-Enlargement, financial crisis, and the introduction of the Euro at the seminar EU-Enlargement: New Members – Old Periphery? Part I.
Dec. 04, 2006 read more »»
Brazil: Elections Reveal a Divided Country
The first round of Brazilian presidential elections shows a regionally and socially divided country.
Oct. 20, 2006 read more »»
Central and Eastern Europe: Structural Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Debts (V)
Persistant current account deficits and increasing foreign debts are alarming though hardly discussed trends of East Central Europe's economic development. Part five: Conclusions and sources.
Oct. 17, 2006 read more »»
Central and Eastern Europe: Structural Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Debts (IV)
Persistant current account deficits and increasing foreign debts are alarming though hardly discussed trends of East Central Europe's economic development. Part IV: External Debt.
Oct. 16, 2006 read more »»
Central and Eastern Europe: Structural Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Debts (III)
Persistant current account deficits and increasing foreign debts are alarming though hardly discussed trends of East Central Europe's economic development. Part III: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Oct. 13, 2006 read more »»
Central and Eastern Europe: Structural Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Debts (II)
Persistant current account deficits and increasing foreign debts are alarming though hardly discussed trends of East Central Europe's economic development. Part II: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Oct. 12, 2006 read more »»
Central and Eastern Europe: Structural Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Debts (I)
Persistant current account deficits and increasing foreign debts are alarming though hardly discussed trends of East Central Europe's economic development. A series in five parts.
Oct. 11, 2006 read more »»
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