This paper argues that Central Europe should draw the lessons from the Asian and Mexican crises: hard money and sound credit are essential in a world where capital is intensely mobile, contagion pervasive and the economic and social costs of crises nothing short of formidable. We argue that...

Die vorliegende kurze Studie zielt darauf ab, die Erfahrungen Japans, Westeuropas und Nordamerikas mit flexiblen Wechselkursen darzustellen und zu untersuchen, wie effizient das System flexibler Kurse im Hinblick auf die wirtschaftspolitischen Ziele gewesen ist. Der Aufbau dieser Studie ist wie...

We argue that in an unreliable enforcement regime, transactions tend to become intermediated through institutions or concentrated among agents bound by some form of private enforcement. Provision of funding shifts from risk capital to debt, and from markets to institutions with long term...

This manifesto challenges a pernicious orthodoxy that has gripped Europe's policy makers. It is that demand- and supply-side policies must have different aims, that a limited number of supply-side policies are to be devoted to fighting unemployment, and that demand management (and particularly...