Piroska, D. and Epstein, R.A. (2026) ‘ Out of Many, Many: Variation in East Central Europe Financial Governance Despite the EU’s Single Market’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
Abstract: Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth. Earlier research found that the Banking Union and Capital Markets Union’s potential to channel funding for growth to East Central […]
Dora Piroska
Dr. Dora Piroska is Associate Professor at the International Relations Department of Central European University, Vienna, Austria. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CEU. Her research focuses on the international political economy (IPE) of banking and finance and development finance with a particular interest in the Eastern Central European region. She has […]
Thiemann, M., Mocanu, D., & Piroska, D. (2025). The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession. Journal of European Public Policy, 1–37.
Abstract: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reenergized the European Union’s enlargement process. The accelerated accession process is defined by the deployment of large investment programmes, which seek to mobilise public and private funds based on EU budgetary means, driving blended financial investments into candidate states’ sectors deemed to require transformation for EU membership. This study […]