Fixing Russia's Banks documents how Russia's financial system is built on what Michael S. Bernstam and Alvin Rabushka call ersatz banks. These inferior imitation banks have served largely as tools of the government to redistribute public funds to favored firms. The highly vaunted achievements of privatization, removal of price controls, and foreign trade liberalization have failed to produce growth because of a lack of private financing. National income has declined nearly 40 percent since 1992, with no recovery in sight.
- ISBN13 9780817995720
- Publish Date 30 July 1998 (first published 1 July 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 114
- Language English