GEOFIN Working Paper No. 4

Mikuš, M. (2019) Financialization of the state in postsocialist East-Central Europe: analysis of secondary quantitative data. GEOFIN Working Paper No. 4. Dublin: GEOFIN research, Trinity College Dublin.

Abstract:

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.

Keywords: core-periphery relations; East-Central Europe; financialization; the state.

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