An Assessment of the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis

1. Introduction
Philip Arestis, Rogério Sobreira, José Luis Oreiro

2. Current Crisis in the US and Economic Policy Implications
Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos

3. The Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Which Way Forward?
Ajit Singh, Ann Zammit

4. Crises and the Bretton Woods Institutions and the Crises of the Bretton Woods Institutions
Howard Stein

5. Crisis in the Euro Zone
Jonathan Perraton

6. The Impact of the Current Crisis on Emerging Market and Developing Countries
Jesus Ferreiro, Felipe Serrano

7. The Crisis in Western and Eastern EU: Does the Policy Reaction Address its Origins?
Özlem Onaran

8. The Impact of the Subprime Financial Crisis on the Transition and Central Asian Economies: Causes and Consequences
Nigel F. B. Allington, John S. L. McCombie

9. The World Financial Crisis and the Implications for China
Shujie Yao, Jing Zhang

10. The 2008 Financial Crisis and Banking Regulation in Brazil
Luiz Fernando de Paula, Rogério Sobreira

11. Exchange-Rate Derivatives, Financial Fragility and Monetary Policy in Brazil during the World Financial Crisis
José Luis Oreiro, Flavio Basilio

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Development Economics, Finance, general