CIAO DATE: 01/07
Volume 26, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2006
Editor's Note
(PDF, 2 pp., 36 KB)
James A. Dorn
Building Better Institutions
(PDF, 8 pp., 57 KB)
Rodrigo de Rato
Monetary Credibility, Inflation, and Economic Growth
(PDF, 8 pp., 57 KB)
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Sound Monetary Policy, Credibility, and Economic Performance
(PDF, 12 pp., 77 KB)
Mickey D. Levy
Five Persistent Myths about China's Banking System
(PDF, 8 pp., 57 KB)
Jonathan Anderson
Renminbi Controversies
(PDF, 16 pp., 139 KB)
Morris Goldstein
Global Imbalances and Financial Reform with Examples from China
(PDF, 7 pp., 53 KB)
Raghuram G. Rajan
A Proposal to Privatize Chinese Enterprises and End Financial Repression
(PDF, 12 pp., 81 KB)
Deepak Lal
Do Financing Biases Matter for the Chinese Economy?
(PDF, 20 pp., 112 KB)
Yasheng Huang
Does China Save and Invest Too Much?
(PDF, 9 pp., 63 KB)
John H. Makin
The U.S. Dollar and Prosperity: Accidents Waiting to Happen
(PDF, 16 pp., 97 KB)
Reuven Brenner
An Unconventional Perspective on the Greenspan Record
(PDF, 3 pp., 39 KB)
William A. Niskanen
Will Emerging Markets Escape the Next Big Systemic Financial Crisis?
(PDF, 5 pp., 47 KB)
Kenneth Rogoff
The Unsustainability of the U.S. Twin Deficits
(PDF, 14 pp., 80 KB)
Nouriel Roubini
The Failure of Debt-Based Development: Lessons from Argentina
(PDF, 9 pp., 60 KB)
Eugenio Andrea Bruno
The Case against a Dollar Policy
(PDF, 12 pp., 74 KB)
Samuel Brittan
Book Reviews
Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern
(PDF, 4 pp., 45 KB)
by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., and Ross Levine
Reviewed by Robert E. Anderson
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
(PDF, 4 pp., 44 KB)
by William Easterly
Reviewed by Prakash Loungani
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System
(PDF, 6 pp., 50 KB)
by John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler
Reviewed by Michael F. Cannon