Economics of European Crises and Emerging Markets

This volume explores a wide range of case studies, analyses, histories, and polemics on the fate of post-socialist Europe- and why that matters to readers today. Nearly 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the post-socialist economies of the former East remain adrift, buffeted by the international financial crisis, the Ukraine crisis, and the ongoing instability in the European Union. This new book brings together a diverse range of scholars in offering a comprehensive look at the struggles faced by policymakers, economists and business people across the former East, and the ways that they responded to crisis. This volume also will be of great value to policymakers, academics, historians, and economists seeking to understand possible influence of China's One Belt One Road policy on Eastern Europe and Russia. 

  

Peter Havlik is Senior Economist and former Deputy Director at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and guest research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
 
Ichiro Iwasaki, formerly a diplomat at Japan's embassy in the Soviet Union during the time it transitioned to the Russian federation, researches post-socialist transition economies at Hitotsubashi University's Research Division of Comparative and World Economics, and has published in Japanese, Russian, and English in a wide range of academic journals.