Martin Myant is Head of Unit European Economic, Employment and Social Policy and at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Belgium. Jan Drahokoupil is a Senior Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany, and at the ETUI in Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. Introduction: Transition Economies after the Crisis of 2008: Actors and Policies Policy Paradigms and Forms of Development in and after the Crisis 2. The Political Economy of Crisis Management in East – Central European Countries 3. Avoiding the Economic Crisis: Pragmatic Liberalism and Divisions over Economic Policy in Poland 4. The Baltic Republics and the Crisis of 2008 – 2011 5. Russia’s Response to Crisis: The Paradox of Success 6. Belarus’ Anti-Crisis Management: Success Story of Delayed Recession? Continuity and change in the enterprise sector 7. Crisis and Upgrading: The Case of the Hungarian Automotive and Electronics Sectors 8. Actions and Reactions of Russian Manufacturing Companies to the Crisis Shocks from 2008 – 2009: Evidence from the Empirical Survey Banks – the Role of Ownership and Regulation 9. Central and East European Bank Responses to the Financial ‘Crisis’: Do Domestic Banks Perform Better in a Crisis than their Foreign-Owned Counterparts? 10. The Return of Political Risk: Foreign-Owned Banks in Emerging Europe

Martin Myant is Head of Unit European Economic, Employment and Social Policy and at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Belgium. Jan Drahokoupil is a Senior Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany, and at the ETUI in Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. Introduction: Transition Economies after the Crisis of 2008: Actors and Policies Policy Paradigms and Forms of Development in and after the Crisis 2. The Political Economy of Crisis Management in East – Central European Countries 3. Avoiding the Economic Crisis: Pragmatic Liberalism and Divisions over Economic Policy in Poland 4. The Baltic Republics and the Crisis of 2008 – 2011 5. Russia’s Response to Crisis: The Paradox of Success 6. Belarus’ Anti-Crisis Management: Success Story of Delayed Recession? Continuity and change in the enterprise sector 7. Crisis and Upgrading: The Case of the Hungarian Automotive and Electronics Sectors 8. Actions and Reactions of Russian Manufacturing Companies to the Crisis Shocks from 2008 – 2009: Evidence from the Empirical Survey Banks – the Role of Ownership and Regulation 9. Central and East European Bank Responses to the Financial ‘Crisis’: Do Domestic Banks Perform Better in a Crisis than their Foreign-Owned Counterparts? 10. The Return of Political Risk: Foreign-Owned Banks in Emerging Europe

Martin Myant is Head of Unit European Economic, Employment and Social Policy and at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Belgium. Jan Drahokoupil is a Senior Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany, and at the ETUI in Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. Introduction: Transition Economies after the Crisis of 2008: Actors and Policies Policy Paradigms and Forms of Development in and after the Crisis 2. The Political Economy of Crisis Management in East – Central European Countries 3. Avoiding the Economic Crisis: Pragmatic Liberalism and Divisions over Economic Policy in Poland 4. The Baltic Republics and the Crisis of 2008 – 2011 5. Russia’s Response to Crisis: The Paradox of Success 6. Belarus’ Anti-Crisis Management: Success Story of Delayed Recession? Continuity and change in the enterprise sector 7. Crisis and Upgrading: The Case of the Hungarian Automotive and Electronics Sectors 8. Actions and Reactions of Russian Manufacturing Companies to the Crisis Shocks from 2008 – 2009: Evidence from the Empirical Survey Banks – the Role of Ownership and Regulation 9. Central and East European Bank Responses to the Financial ‘Crisis’: Do Domestic Banks Perform Better in a Crisis than their Foreign-Owned Counterparts? 10. The Return of Political Risk: Foreign-Owned Banks in Emerging Europe