— This paper reviews 12 studies presented at a conference examining two broad themes: (a) the interplay between household coping strategies and the impact of crises and natural disasters on various dimensions of well-being (e.g., consumption and child nutrition); and (b) some of the exante and ex-post strategies that public agencies can adopt so they can be more effective in protecting househol...

This virtual special issue includes research on the effects of crises, in particular COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial responses to deal with consequences crises. highlights how crises affect entrepreneurs’ well-being reinforce importance agency entrepreneurs other citizens. The also need for resilience; ability entrepreneurs, organizations, economies absorb adapt shocks;...

The global economic and financial instability context of the 1990s and 2000s also affected the Turkish economy. Actually, the 1980s in Turkey are characterized by a radical transformation of its economy through significant efforts of liberalization. With an outlooking economy and a liberalized financial system in the early 1990s, Turkey was an example of successful liberalization process for th...

This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America over the period from 1970 to 2000. We find that the difference in growth performance between two regions are largely attributed to the differences in fundamental growth factors such as investment rate, human resources, fertility, institutional quality, macroeconomic stabilit...

Recessions and other crises seem to occur without any large exogenous shocks. One theory is that this is due to strategic complementarities: the incentive to invest is stronger if others are expected to invest. If, in addition, each investor observes a slightly noisy signal of the true fundamentals, a crisis occurs whenever fundamentals fall below a certain threshold (Morris and Shin, AER 1998)...