Willem Hendrik Buiter : EBRD
Writings and speeches on transition-related issues from the period I
served as Chief Economist of the EBRD from June 2000 till August 2005.
The views
expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, its Directors or
Governors.
- “Comment” on “Regional Banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier
for Development Financing”, by Robert Devlin and Lucio Castro, in Nancy
Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez eds. Financing Development, the
Power of Regionalism, Center for Global Development, Washington DC,
September 2004, pp. 91-95.
- “Transition and Sustainable Growth in
the Early Transition Countries: The Role of the Private Sector in
Poverty Reduction” , Introduction for the Early Transition
Countries Strategic Review Meeting, EBRD, June 30, 2004.
- “Country Ownership: a Term Whose
Time Has Gone”, Remarks prepared for the Development Policy Forum
“Conditionality Revisited”, organised by the World Bank at the World
Bank Conference Center, Paris, France on July 5, 2004. Mimeo, Office of
the Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
July 2004.
- "What have we learnt from fifteen
years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe?", paper prepared
for the International Policy Conference on Transition Economies, 31 May
and 1 June 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam. Mimeo, Office of the Chief Economist,
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, July 2004.
- "To Purgatory and Beyond; When and how
should the accession countries from Central and Eastern Europe become
full members of the EMU?", mimeo, Office of the Chief Economist,
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, February 2004. For an
abstract, click here .
- "Patching up the Pact; Some Suggestions
for Enhancing Fiscal Sustainability and Macroeconomic Stability in an
Enlarged European Union", with Clemens Grafe, This
is an electronic version of an article published in The Economics
of Transition, Volume 12 (1) 2004, pp. 67–102. Complete citation
information for the final version of the paper, as published in the
print edition of The Economics of Transition is available on
the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the
journal's website at
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0967-0750 or
at
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com . For an abstract click here.
- "Corporate Governance in Developing,
Transition and Emerging–Market Economies", with Charles Oman and
Steven Fries, OECD Development Centre Policy Brief No. 23, 2003. For an
abstract, click here.
- "The case of privatisation of network
utilities", with Maria Vagliasindi, in Structural Challenges
for Europe , Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell and Peter Mooslechner eds.,
pp. 355-387. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 2003.
- "Capital account liberalization and
financial sector development in transition countries" in Capital
Liberalization in Transition Countries: Lessons from the Past and for
the Future , with Anita Taci, edited by Age F. P. Bakker and Bryan
Chapple, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
- "Reforming EMU's fiscal policy rules;
some suggestions for enhancing fiscal sustainability and macroeconomic
stability in an enlarged European Union", with Clemens Grafe, in
Marco Buti ed. Monetary and Fiscal Policies in EMU: Interactions
and Coordination, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 92-145. For an
abstract click here .
- "Opportunities and Challenges for
Estonia's Economic Convergence to the EU", with Vanessa
Mitchell-Thomson, in Postimees (Estonia's largest daily
newspaper), July 2002.
- "What Should the Multilateral
Development Banks Do?", with Steven Fries, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development Working Paper No. 74, June 2002. For an
abstract click here .
- "Capital Flight and Capital Outflows from
Russia: Symptom, Cause and Cure", with Ivan Szegvari, European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development Working Paper No. 73, June 2002. For
an abstract click here .
- "Anchor, Float or Abandon Ship: Exchange
Rate Regimes for the Accession Countries", with Clemens Grafe,
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, mimeo, January 2002.
An abbreviated version of the paper can be found here,
in Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro Quarterly Review, No. 221, June
2002, pp. 1-32. For an abstract, click here.
- "Globalisation and Regional
Integration; A View from Eastern Europe and the FSU", in House of
Lords, Session 2001-02, Select Committee on Economic Affairs,Globalisation,
Oral Evidence up to 13 March 2002, pp. 83-96, London, the Stationary
Office Ltd.
- "Nature’s blessing or nature’s curse:
the political economy of transition in resource-based economies",
with Akram Esanov and Martin Raiser, European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development Working Paper No. 65, November 2001. For an abstract,
click here.
- "Debt in Transition Economies: Where is it Heading, What can
be Done About it?", with Ricardo Lago, Revue
D'Économie
Financière, Special Issue, Ten Years of
Transition in
Eastern European Countries, Achievements and Challenges, 2001, pp.
191-213.
- "Spreads on Local Currency Loans vs
Spreads on Hard Currency Loans", mimeo, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, November 2001.
- "Blended Finance and Subsidies: An
Economic Analysis of the Use of Grants and Other Subsidies in Project
Finance by Multilateral Development Banks", with Mark Schankerman,
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, mimeo, June 2002; for
an abstract, click here .
- "Recession and Financial Crisis: How
Prepared Are We?", forthcoming under the title "Ugly Things Can
Happen", in The World Today, May 2001.
- "International Financial Institutions -
Adapting to a World of Private Capital Flows", with Hans Peter
Lankes, mimeo European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2001,
forthcoming in Dilip Das, Editor, Perspectives in Global Finance,
Routledge, London & New York.
- "Central Banking and the Choice of
Currency Regime in Accession Countries", with Clemens Grafe.
Lecture given on October 26, 2000 at the University of Warsaw.
Published as the SUERF Studies No. 11, Soci&été
Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières,
Vienna, 2001; republished in Revue D'Économie
Financière, Special Issue, Ten Years of Transition in
Eastern European Countries, Achievements and Challenges, 2001, pp.
287-318.
- Targets, Instruments and Institutional Arrangements for
an Effective Monetary Authority, Seventh L.K. Jha Memorial Lecture,
Reserve Bank of India, October 2000, Mumbai, India, with Anne C.
Sibert.
- "From Predation to Accumulation? The
Second Transition Decade in Russia.", Economics of Transition,
8(3), 2000, pp. 603-622.