The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar ()

American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 102, issue 4, 1619-44

Abstract: Why did Finland experience, in 1991-1993, the deepest recession observed in an industrialized country since the 1930s? Using a dynamic general equilibrium model with labor frictions, we argue that the collapse of the Soviet-Finnish trade was a major contributor to the contraction. Finland's experience mirrors that of the transition economies of Eastern Europe, which suffered similar deep recessions coupled with institutional changes. By focusing on the Finnish case, we isolate the effects of the Finnish-Soviet trade collapse and shed new light on the sources of recessions in transition economies.

Date: 2012
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