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This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...
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The 'Washington consensus' and 'shock therapy' approach to transition economies ignored the Keynesian lessons from the Great Depression: that market instability is a possibility and there may be an active role of government in managing stability and growth. The severe output decline in East...
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In Lateinamerika hat sich auf breiter Front eine wirtschaftspolitische Umkehr vollzogen. Immer mehr Länder haben … giobale Arbeitsteilung eingebunden. Lateinamerika profitierte von einem Boom ausländischer Direktinvestitionen. Weiten Teilen …. Kurzfristige Risiken ergeben sich für Lateinamerika daraus, daß ausländische Investoren durch die asiatische Finanzkrise generell …
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Die meisten Staaten Lateinamerikas und darüber hinaus viele Entwicklungsländer weltweit haben in den letzten 10 Jahren substantielle Reformen ihrer Volkswirtschaften vorgenommen. Ziel dieser Reformen ist es, den überkommenen Weg der staatlich gelenkten wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung hinter...
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This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...
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During the '90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State's role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important...
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In this study we examine the impact on Hungary of a possible correction of global imbalances. We distinguished four different channels of the global adjustment process, which are widely referred to in the literature (fiscal tightening in the U.S.; housing price correction in the US; an increase...
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The current global financial non-system is marked by instability. In the absence of global solutions, a series of regional arrangements of monetary cooperation have been emerging to cope with such instability. The paper focuses on regional payment systems as an initial step of regional monetary...
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