A Portfolio Approach to a Cross-Sectoral and Cross-National Investment Strategy in Transition Economies

Willem Buiter, Ricardo Lago and Helene Rey

No 5882, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper takes a systematic look at the portfolio choice problem faced by Investment Banks or Funds investing in transition economies. We relate the performance of projects in the transition economies to the broader macroeconomic and international environment, which affect the project through its input-output structure and its financial balance sheet. Among the macroeconomic determinants of enterprise behavior we consider are productivity growth, real wage growth, movements in the international terms of trade, shocks to the relative price of traded and non-traded goods, domestic and foreign interest rates, currency depreciation and the rate of inflation. We evaluate the attractiveness of alternative investment strategies and provisioning rules from the perspective of portfolio theory.

JEL-codes: G11 P27 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-01
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Published as The Economics of Transition, Vol.5, no.1 (1997), pp.63-96.

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