Beyond Transition 18 (2)

Barriers to banking, by Asli Demirguc_Kunt. Finance and opportunity, by Ross Levine and Asli Demirguc_Kunt. Risk taking by banks in transition countries by Paul Wachtel and Rainer Haselmann. Foreign bank participation and crises in developing countries, by Robert Cull and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria. Financial sector development in south eastern Europe, by Bettina Hagmayr and Peter Haiss. Sophisticated discipline in a nascent deposit market, by Alexei Karas, William Pyle, and Koen Schoors. Bank efficiency and market structure in Armenia, by Era Dabla_Norris and Holger Floerkemeier. Financing economic growth in Georgia, by Andreas Billmeier and Shuang Ding. Whither the gains from capital market reforms?, by Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi, Sergio L. Schmukler. The mutual fund Industry in Russia: beyond the stage of initial growth, by Alexei Goriaev. Massive delisting on the Prague stock exchange, by Zuzana Fungacova. The Ukrainian stock market, by Valentin Zelenyuk. Political credibility, citizen information and financial sector development, by Philip Keefer. Domestic institutions and financial globalization, by Jiandong Ju and Shang_Jin Wei. From Red to grey: a third transition, by Mukesh Chawla, Gordon Betcherman, and Arup Banerji. Life in transition: current attitudes, by Peter Sanfey, Franklin Steves and Utku Teksoz. Russian fiscal Policy: challenges ahead, by Yevsei Gurvich. Economic growth in Croatia: potential and constraints, by David Moore and Athanasios Vamvakidis.