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Transition Studies Review 35

Banking Development and Institutional Reforms:recent trends in Transition Countries 11

Gregorio De Felice, Virginia Tirri

Introduction – Banking development – Banking development and institutional reforms – Growth potential of the transition countries’ banking sectors – Conclusions

Dividend policy in the Czech Republic 23

Petr Marek

Objectives and methodology - Responses to survey questions - Limitations of information ability of surveys’ conclusions

The boom and the fall of credit unions in the Czech Republic 28

Petr Dvor¡ák

The development of credit unions sector - The reasons of the crisis - Advice and conclusions

EFER

The EU and ASEAN: real Integration and Lessons in Financial Cooperation 33

Michael G. Plummer

Introduction - The EU-ASEAN Trade and FDI Relationship: Real and Policy Determinants – EU Integration Lessons for ASEAN: Financial Development and Integration - Monetary Union

Consideration in ASEAN: Lessons from Europe - Concluding Remarks

NER

Small Firms in Cross-border business Networks with the CEEC: evidence from Austria 55

Peter Huber

Introduction - Data - Empirical Strategy – Results – Conclusions

Transition and EU Accession:

Probability of entry for Countries beyond 2004 Enlargement 66

Boz¡idar Cerovic´, Aleksandra Nojkovic

Introduction – Transition and growth: initial findings – Transition and accession: first selecting round –Transition and accession: second selecting round – Conclusions

RRR

Adjustment of the Hungarian regional policy to EU: the South Plain case study 77

Beáta Farkas

The legal regulation of the institutional system of regional development - The situation of human resources in the region and its social trends - Economic structure and trends - The operation of the institutions of regional development in the South Plain - The cross border co-operations of the South Plain – Conclusions

Personal Consumption in the Republic of Croatia: history and modelling 91

Z ¡ eljko Lovrinc¡evic´, Davor Mikulic´

Introduction – Theoretical aspects of the error correction model – Empirical EC modelling of the personal consumption function in the Republic of Croatia in the period 1970-2002 – Conclusions

SEEI

EU Enlargement, Euro, Competitiveness, International Strategies

and Opportunity Cycle: a view from Italy 109

Giorgio Dominese

The EU’s search for a common strategy: enlargement and beyond - The “euro” effect and the future steps – International framework: Nato, a real factor of integration and security - Competitiveness in the CEECs countries: better than expected - The Italian economy and EU enlargement – Romania and the Italian industrial delocation “case”