Contents:PART I A modern take on structural reforms1. Past and future reform challenges for CESEE and Europe at large Ewald Nowotny, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald and Helene Schuberth2. Revisiting transition reformSergei Guriev3. Europe's moments of truth - wicked crises, good and bad consequencesSonja Puntscher Riekmann 4. Social Europe - the pillar of social rightsGeorg FischerPART II technological change and innovation - heterogeneous growth opportunities across countries5. Innovation in the CESEE region - the role of business environment, financing and reformsHelena Schweiger6. Squaring the circle - the EU and the challenge of delivering better policies for a globalized worldDaria Taglioni7. Non-tariff measures for better or worseMahdi Ghodsi, Julia Gruebler, Oliver Reiter and Robert StehrerPART III The winner takes it all? Distributional effects of reforms8.

Structural reforms and income distribution: an empirical analysisOrsetta Causa9. Labour market hierarchies and the unemployment-wage nexus in CESEE and in the EUPaul RamskoglerPART IV Past and current reform strategies in Europe10. Structural reforms in Slovakia - past and present (never-ending story .)Jozef Makúch11. Crisis management and economic policy shifts in Hungary after 2010Barnabás Virág12. Ensuring monetary and financial stability in the Czech RepublicJiri Rusnok13. Sustainable pension reforms - what can we learn from the experiences of Poland and other EU countries?Pawel Strzelecki14. Europeanization meets transformation - a political economy approach to transitionAlina Mungiu-PippidiPART V Reforming EU frameworks or EU countries?15.

Reforms in the EU: the interface of national and Community levelsLázló Csaba16. Reflections on a public risk-sharing capacity for the Euro areaHubert Gabrisch17. Reviving convergence - making EU member states fit for joining the Euro areaLucio Vinhas de Souza, Oliver Dreute, Vladimir Isalia and Jan-Martin FrieIndex.