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, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …
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likely to happen by government decree. Instead, they usually come about when the unanimous blocking of reform by powerful … sustainability of reform depends on the existence of new groups that benefit from the new status quo and have enough power to defend … it. Thus, the speed of successful reform is determined by the speed with which new groups are consolidated. Initially …
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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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There are two ways to eliminate this distortion toward successful fiscal restoration. One of them is to make the monetary authority more conservative than society in the sense that the price stability weight of monetary authority is higher than that of society. The other way of eliminating the...
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explanations for why that is the case; many individuals will simply not know how they will fare under trade reform, and this can … reduce support for a reform which would have been otherwise popular, even in the absence of risk aversion. We show that …
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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which … behavior after the reform, and the volume spike in the fixing window disappeared. However, the anomalies on price dynamics … to examine the efficiency of banks' behavior after the reform. The volume pattern during the fixing time window suggests …
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Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...
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The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four …'s approach to reform is similar to that in several East European countries. It differs in having started with a major price … restructuring policy that goes beyond privatization. The paper concludes with a discussion of the interrelated questions of inter …
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Interconnections between banking crises and fiscal crises have a long history. We document the long-run evolution from classic banking panics towards modern banking crises where financial guarantees are associated with crisis resolution. Recent crises feature a feedback loop between bank...
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We study cointegrating relationships among fiscal variables and output and use them to introduce a new measure of the government's fiscal position. In the US since World War II, we find that the primary surplus-GDP ratio and the government debt-GDP ratio are nonstationary, which invalidates...
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