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Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Light of the East Asian Experiences

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1996

During the past five years, there has been an important debate over the differing styles of market reforms in the formerly planned economies in East Asia versus Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (EEFSU). This paper puts forward three related propositions. First, the rapid growth of East...

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The transition in Eastern Europe

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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The Transition Economies After Ten Years

Fischer, Stanley - 2000

While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...

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Russia and the Soviet Union Then and Now

Fischer, Stanley - 1992

The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four … historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New … 1970s and 1980s? What role did Gorbachev's policies play in bringing about the final collapse of the Soviet Union? Russia …

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Country studies

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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Foreign direct investment

Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Lessons from the Asian Crisis

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000

This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...

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Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises : Theory, Policy Implications and Applications

Diamond, Douglas W. - 2000

Short-term borrowing has often been blamed for precipitating financial crises. We argue that while the empirical association between a financial institution's, or country's, short-term borrowing and susceptibility to crises may, in fact, exist, the direction of causality is often precisely the...

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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Hulten, Charles R. - 1999

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...

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