This paper analyses the characteristics of the foreign trade of Cuba with its most important trade partners, from the so-called Special Period which was the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The absence of the Soviet bloc presented Cuba the necessity of structural changes in...

The paper re-examines the role of the collapse of Soviet/Russian trade in the Finnish depression of the 1990's, using time series analysis based on a theoretical open macro model. It is shown that empirically, the strong credit expansion resulting from the simultaneous liberalization of the...