Financialization of the state in postsocialist East-Central Europe: analysis of secondary quantitative data (original) (raw)

Financialization of the state in postsocialist East-Central Europe: analysis of secondary quantitative data

2019, EOFIN Working Paper No. 4

This working paper makes first exploratory steps in GEOFIN’s empirical study of the financialization of the state in eleven European Union member states in postsocialist East-Central Europe (ECE-11). Following a description of the geographic, historical and political economic context of ECE-11, the core of the paper is a descriptive and comparative analysis of internationally comparable secondary quantitative data of relevance for the financialization of states in ECE-11. Synthetic conclusions draw out the key patterns and trends and suggest a more limited set of national-level case studies to be researched in-depth in the future.