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dc.contributor.authorGorodnichenko, Yuriyen
dc.contributor.authorMendoza, Enrique G.en
dc.contributor.authorTesar, Linda L.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-06-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:50:21Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:50:21Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513109en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35312-
dc.description.abstractDuring the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the manufacturing sector and a sudden, large increase in the cost of energy. We develop and calibrate a multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with labor market frictions, and show that the collapse of Soviet-Finnish trade can explain key features of Finland's Great Depression. We also show that Finland's Great Depression mirrors the macroeconomic dynamics of the transition economies of Eastern Europe. These economies experienced a similar trade collapse. However, as a western democracy with developed capital markets and institutions, Finland faced none of the large institutional adjustments that other transition economies experienced. Thus, by studying the Finnish experience we isolate the adjustment costs due solely to the collapse of Soviet trade.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4113en
dc.subject.jelE32en
dc.subject.jelF41en
dc.subject.jelP2en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordBusiness cyclesen
dc.subject.keyworddepressionen
dc.subject.keywordtradeen
dc.subject.keywordSovieten
dc.subject.keywordreallocationen
dc.subject.keywordmulti-sector modelen
dc.subject.stwInternationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwAußenwirtschaften
dc.subject.stwSystemtransformationen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftskriseen
dc.subject.stwRusslanden
dc.subject.stwFinnlanden
dc.titleThe finnish great depression: from Russia with love-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn599219734en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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