Seminar series addressing the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the CEE, SEE and CIS countries and discussing possible policy responses.
Series Details

 
Venue: wiiw
Friday, 15 May 2009, 1:30 pm

If this crisis had been just a hard landing of the US (and UK, Spain, et al.), then we would have greater comprehension of what happened. If this crisis had largely spared those countries whose regulatory structures were more a priori sensible, then we would have better guidance for future regulation. If this crisis had spared those who securitized, unjustly or not, then we would be justified in forcing banks to hold more of their loans. If this crisis had led to a drop in trade no more than commensurate with the decline in demand, then we would understand the real transmission mechanism. If this crisis had truly been based on 'excess liquidity', then global markets should have been more synchronized before the crisis and less synchronized after it hit. In short, the more carefully one examines this crisis, the more perplexing it becomes, when taking a cross-national perspective.