Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti
This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization.
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Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti
This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization.
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Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti

Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti

Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti

Transition and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti

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This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230546974
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/02/2007
Series: Studies in Economic Transition Series
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.76(w) x 8.83(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

MARINA BAKANOVA World Bank Country Economist for Belarus
SIMON COMMANDER Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets (CNEM), London Business School, UK; Senior Adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK
LÁSZLÓ CSABA Professor of Economics and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; Professor, University of Debrecen, Hungary; Professor, Budapest Corvinus University, Hungary
MARCELLO DE CECCO Professor of Monetary and Financial History, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
PADMA DESAI Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Centre for Transition Economies, Columbia University, USA; Member, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
JOHN EATWELL Lord Eatwell of Stratton St. Margaret (Life Peer); President, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK; Director, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, UK; Professor of Financial Policy, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UK
MICHAEL ELLMAN Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam. The Netherlands
SERGIO GODOY Senior Economist, Financial Operations Division, International Finance Group, Central Bank of Chile, Chile; Part-Time Professor in Emerging Financial Markets, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
MICHAEL KEREN Professor, Department of Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
GUR OFER Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff (Emeritus) Professor of Soviet Economics, Department of Economics and Department of Russian Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
IGOR PELIPAS Director, Research Centre of the Institute for Privatization and Management (IPM), Minsk, Belarus
VLADIMIR POPOV Professor, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia; Sector Head, Academy of the National Economy, Moscow, Russia; Visiting Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
JANEZ PRA NIKAR Professor of Economics, Executive Director of the Institute for South-Eastern Europe; Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Director, Residential Master's Program in Business and Organization, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SERGEI PUKOVICH Institute of Privatization and Management, Minsk, Belarus; Director, Consulting Centre of the Institute for Privatization and Management (IPM), Minsk, Belarus
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA; Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York, USA
JAN SVEJNAR Director, International Policy Centre, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, USA; Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, USA; Chairman, Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic; Chairman, Supervisory Board of CSOB Bank, Czech Republic; Governing Board Member, European Economic Association, UK
VITO TANZI Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction; S.Estrin, G.Kolodko & M.Uvalic PART I: THE SOCIALIST LEGACY The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning; M.Ellman Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy: Why Soviet Growth Rates Peaked in the 1950s; V.Popov Are Transition Economies Normal Developing Countries? The Burden of the Socialist Past; M.Keren & G.Ofer PART II: TRANSITION: FROM SOCIALISM TO CAPITALISM Growth, Initial Conditions and, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later; S.Godoy & J.E.Stiglitz Skills and the Transition; S.Commander Financial Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: A Note; M.de Cecco Investment, Wages and Corporate Governance During the Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Firms; J.Prasnikar & J.Svejnar How Different is Serbia?; M.Uvalic The Search for Identity: Where is Russia Heading?; P.Desai The Effects of Privatization on Company Performance in Belarus; S.Estrin, M.Bakanova, I.Pelipas & S.Pukovich PART III: BEYOND TRANSITION Complexity and Systemic Failure; V.Tanzi Risk Management and Systemic Risk; J.Eatwell Optimal Transition Trajectories?; L.Csaba The Great Post-Communist Change and Uncertain Future of the World; G.W.Kolodko
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