Credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe / Causes and nature of the rapid growth of bank credit in the Central, Eaastern and South-eastern European countries / Using fundamentals to identify episodes of "excessive" credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe / Fast credit expansion in Central and Eastern Europe: catching-up, sustainable financial deepening, or bubble? / Analysis of and policy responses to rapid credit growth / Rapid credit growth: the role of supervisors / Credit growth slowdown: the experience of Bulgaria / Croatian experience with rapid credit growth / Estonia's experience with rapid credit growth / Latvia's experience with rapid credit growth / Assessment of credit growth in Lithuania / Poland's experiences with rapid credit growth: the 1996-97 episode / Fast credit growth and policy response: the case of Romania / Slovakia: credit growth in the household sector and response to the related risks / Too much of a good thing? Credit booms in transition economies: the cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine / Role of housing markets and foreign-owned banks in the credit expansion in Central and Eastern Europe / Regional dimensions of dealing with rapid credit growth: perspectives from Greece (1998-2005) / Debt growth: factors, institutional issues and implications: the Portuguese case / Growth of private sector debt in Spain: causes and consequences / Cross-border supervisory cooperation / Role of cross-border supervisory coordination when dealing with rapid credit growth in emerging countries: home country perspective / Home and host supervisors' relations: a host supervisor's perspective / Lessons from country experiences with rapid credit growth, and policy implications