Global economic crisis : impacts transmission and recovery In 2008 the global economy experienced the most severe crash since World War II. A sharp collapse in international trade followed leaving no country on the globe immune to a sequence of economic shocks. This timely book explores many of the key issues raised in the wake of the global economic crisis and provides an in depth analysis of crisis transmission to emerging markets. The expert contributors compare the recent crisis with earlier crises explore international aspects of the crisis from the perspectives of financial markets and trade and examine macroeconomic policy responses. In so doing they address important questions including: How did this crisis differ from those suffered previously How and why did flaws in financial markets contribute to the crisis How important were global imbalances and global overheating in explaining the global meltdown Did different pre crisis fundamentals generate different post crisis performances And how severe were the economic shocks to countries such as Korea and other emerging economies