Erik Berglof is Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Erik Berglof
Commentaries by Erik Berglof
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Emerging Europe’s Deleveraging Dilemma
LONDON – Serbia’s Tigar Corporation, a privatized automobile tire and tube maker, was a poster child for corporate makeovers in transition e…
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Cross-Border Banking in the Balance
LONDON – The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally sunk in. The stakes could not be higher. Governments and international financial ins…
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Stuck in Transition
LONDON – The G-8 recently asked the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was created to support the post-communist transi…
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Re-Booting Emerging Europe
LONDON – After the 1997-1998 financial crisis, policymakers in Asia’s major emerging markets – South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and even Ind…
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Transition in Crisis?
LONDON – Europe’s emerging markets have this year experienced their worst output collapse since the great “transitional recession” that foll…
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European Financial Regulation’s Wrong Turn
London – With the crisis in financial systems around the world reflecting massive regulatory failures, calls for more and better oversight a…
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Slamming the Euro Door
LONDON – Last week, central bankers from around the world assembled in Frankfurt to bask in the glory of the euro’s first ten years. But for…
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New Europe Catches Old Europe’s Cold
LONDON – As governments across Western Europe began bailing out banks and their depositors, Eastern Europeans watched nervously, unsure abou…
