The reader is introduced to the purpose, structure, and organizational features of the most important institutions of market economy, such as the Treasury (Ministry of Finance), central (national) bank, bodies responsible for structural changes, supervision of competition, and regulators of strategic industries. The focus of the book is on open trade dependent states, with particular emphasis new member states of the European Union where the institutional order has been shaped by legacies of previous era as well as by policy transfer and policy advice through membership in EU, OECD, IMF and other international institutions. The bulk of the book deals with the comprehensive analysis of institutions of fiscal, monetary, competition, social, spatial policies, and with the emerging trends of new practices.

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