In the three fast track, Central European transition countries, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, bank restructuring and privatization involved different approaches and met with a variety of outcomes. Hence, these experiences in otherwise similar transition economies provide important lessons for bank privatization in other transition countries and in developing economies. If an independent market-oriented banking sector is the overriding goal, three fundamental conclusions emerge. First, bank restructuring and privatization must be sequenced carefully to create the appropriate incentives for lending on a commercial basis only in the future. Second, privatization requires a credible transfer of proper corporate culture is most easily established by attracting a strategic investor, preferably a foreign financial institution.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39631/3/wp245.pd
