Restructuring, Stabilizing and Modernizing the New Russia

• I The Russian Transformation Crisis.- A. The EU and Russia: Strategic Aspects of Transformation and Integration.- B. Currency Crisis Theories — Some Explanations for the Russian Case.- C. Banking Sector and Financial Intermediation in the Russian Transformation Process.- D. Institutional Failures of Market Transformation of the Russian Economy.- E. Russian Crisis: Causes, Developments, Contagion and Prospects.- II Restructuring in Transition Economies.- F. Foreign Direct Investment in Russia: An Engine of Structural Adjustment?.- G. Russian Economy: Structural Change and Econometric Prospective.- H. Economic Opening-Up, Policy Reforms and Relations with International Organizations:A Parallel between Hungary and Russia - Some Major Differences and Similarities.- III Stabilizing Russia.- I. Towards Credible Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Russia.- J. Russian Capital Markets and International Financial Flows.- K. Consumer Prices in Russia and Transforming Official Statistics.- L. The Rationale for Seigniorage in Russia - A Model-Theoretic Approach.- M. Overcoming the Russian Banking Crisis: Theory, Some Empirical Findings and Policy Options.- IV Modernizing Russia.- N. Institutions and Transition: On the Way to a Market Economy — Theory and Application to Russia.- O. Overcoming the Transformation Crisis - Selected Issues and Policy Options in Russia.- P. Nurturing Entrepreneurship and the Role of Co-operatives.- Q. Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Russia, Poland and the Ukraine.- R. Reforming the Natural Monopoly - the Case of Railroad Transport.- V Economic Roundtable: Internal and External Russian Transition Problems.- S. Permanent Crisis in Russia: Selected Problems of Macroeconomic Performance.- T. Systemic Transformation in Russia: Outcomes, Causes, NewImperatives.- U. Official Statistics in Russia and the Measurement of the Crisis - Some Remarks on Russian Price Statistics.- V. Rent-seeking as a Source of Macroeconomic Instability in Russia.- W. Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Transformation Crisis in Russia and Ukraine.- X. Appendix: Selected Macroeconomic Data on Russia and Eastern Europe.- Y. Selection of Links and Internet Pages of Research Institutions Related to Russia.- Z. About the Project: Real and Monetary Transformation Crisis in Russia: Developments, Analysis and Sustainable Transformation.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors.

"...will become an authoritative reading because it constitutes an insightful background for the understanding of Russian economic performance during the last decade. An invaluable reference work for researchers." Bruno S. Sergi, University of Messina and CERC-University of Melbourne from Kyklos 54 (2001)