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Integrating Eastern Europe into the Global Economy - Convertibility Through a Payments Union (Hardcover)
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Integrating Eastern Europe into the Global Economy - Convertibility Through a Payments Union (Hardcover)
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1. Backdrop to the payments constraint.- 2. Consensual transition
policies.- 3. Regional cooperation and economic reform.- 4.
Backdrop to the proposal to create a payments union.- 5. Toward
convertibility through a payments union.- 6. Organization.- 1. The
prevailing socioeconomic situation.- 1. Problems of changing
Eastern European societies.- 2. The current socioeconomic situation
in Eastern Europe.- 3. The drift of the reform debate.- 4. The
nature of the payments problem.- 5. Shocks of mutating trade and
payment regimes.- 6. Western assistance to combat liquidity
shortage.- 2. The collapse and dissolution of the CMEA.- 1. The
CMEA's demise.- 2. CMEA reform discussions.- 3. Salient obstacles
to buoyant intragroup interactions.- 4. Reforming the trade and
payment regimes.- 5. Balance-of-payments constraints and a payments
union.- 3. Economic union in Eastern Europe.- 1. The outlook for
economic union at this juncture.- 2. The desirability of economic
union.- 3. Theoretical merits of a customs union.- 4. Practical
problems and economic union.- 5. Linking a payments facility with
an economic union.- 6. Key features of a payments union.- 4. Paths
to convertibility.- 1. The global economy at Bretton Woods.- 2. On
currency convertibility.- 3. Possible roads to convertibility.- 4.
Western Europe's return to convertibility.- 5. Marketization,
transition, and convertibility.- 1. The national trade and payment
regimes.- 2. The CMEA trade and payment regimes.- 3. Marketization
and convertibility.- 4. Exchange rates.- 6. Toward a payments union
for Eastern Europe?.- 5. Technical aspects of a payments union.- 1.
Overall conceptualization of the CEPU.- 2. Payments problems and a
regional payments unions.- 3. Technical issues of a payments
union.- 1. The clearing agent.- 2. Techniques of accounting.- 3.
Prior imbalances and loans.- 4. Publicity.- 5. The question of
asymmetry.- 6. Quotas and access to credits.- 7. Adjustment rules.-
8. Macroeconomic surveillance.- 9. Interest-rate policies.- 10.
Capital cost.- 11. Duration.- 4. A hypothetical capital fund.- 5. A
payments union with the Soviet Union?.- 6. Macroeconomic
surveillance and the transition.- 1. Macroeconomic responses in a
payments union.- 2. Adjustment under traditional and modified
planning.- 1. Adjustment in the traditional CPE.- 2. Adjustment in
an MPE.- 3. Standard adjustment policies and the PETs.- 4.
Fund-type adjustment programs and the PETs.- 5. CEPU adjustment,
commercial policy, and diplomacy.- 6. Other issues of managing a
payments union.- 7. Downside risks of a CEPU.- 1. Backdrop to the
debate.- 2. The rump order of priority.- 3. General arguments
against payments unions.- 1. Key aspects of a payments union.- 2.
The starting conditions of potential participants.- 3. Directions
of desirable progress.- 4. Comments on the CEPU and their merits.-
5. An evalution of the criticisms.- 1. Emotional and political
objections.- 2. Immediate full convertibility and global
integration.- 3. A CEPU is too small and a CEEU wrong.- 4.
Inappropriateness of present trade patterns.- 5. Too expensive,
undesired, and too slow.- 8. Enlarging the European economic
space.- 1. The basic preoccupations of European integration.- 2.
What needs to be bridged?.- 3. On the transition to ME status.- 1.
Creating markets with genuine prices.- 2. Fostering competition.-
3. Privatization and capital markets.- 4. Trade and
foreign-exchange reforms.- 5. Banking infrastructure and capital
markets.- 6. Macroeconomic policy.- 7. Labor market.- 8. The social
safety net.- 9. Institutions of the market.- 4. On the sequencing
of reforms.- 5. Economic transition and east-west assistance.-
Conclusions.
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