To help explain the common failure of oil or other natural resource exporting countries to diversify into industry, it has been common to trace this failure to real exchange rate appreciation. This has also been done in Azerbaijan. However, because Azerbaijan has devoted so much of its oil...

Although it is little known at least among economists, central banks in industrial countries became involved with industry in the past and particularly after the First World War. This was at least the case in Italy and Britain where central banks provided long-term finance to ailing firms and...

Sometimes industrial police is a success story, but sometimes it is a total failure. It seems like the best results are achieved in countries that (1) support industries oriented not only towards import substitution, but also towards export, at least in the longer run, and (2) support not all...

Working definitions of industrial and competition policy are provided. Based on definition variants of relations of two directions of economic policy have been described. Approaches to building industrial policy have been formulated within the framework of studies based on principles adopted in...

To help explain the common failure of oil or other natural resource exporting countries to diversify into industry, it has been common to trace this failure to real exchange rate appreciation. This has also been done in Azerbaijan. However, because Azerbaijan has devoted so much of its oil...