NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets

Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel, editors

Conference held January 2001
Published in January 2002 by University of Chicago Press
© 2002 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

NBER Program(s):   IFM

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770 pages
ISBN: 0-226-18494-3

Table of Contents

Front matter, acknowledgment, table of contents: Sebastian Edwards, Jeffrey A. Frankel (p. -12 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Sebastian Edwards, Jeffrey A. Frankel (p. 1 - 20) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. Does the Current Account Matter?: Sebastian Edwards (p. 21 - 76) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Are Trade Linkages Important Determinants of Country Vulnerability to Crises?: Kristin J. Forbes (p. 77 - 132) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. What Hurts Emerging Markets Most? G3 Exchange Rate or Interest Rate Volatility?: Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent Raymond Reinhart (p. 133 - 170) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. When Is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?: Linda S. Goldberg (p. 171 - 196) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. The Role of Large Players in Currency Crises: Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti, Nouriel Roubini (p. 197 - 268) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Contagion: How to Measure It?: Roberto Rigobon (p. 269 - 334) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Credit, Prices, and Crashes: Business Cycles with a Sudden Stop: Enrique G. Mendoza (p. 335 - 392) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?: Ethan Kaplan, Dani Rodrik (p. 393 - 440) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Malaysia’s Crisis: Was It Different?: Rudi Dornbusch (p. 441 - 460) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Negative Alchemy? Corruption, Composition of Capital Flows, and Currency Crises: Shang-Jin Wei, Yi Wu (p. 461 - 506) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Domestic Bank Regulation and Financial Crises: Theory and Empirical Evidence from East Asia: Robert Dekle, Kenneth Kletzer (p. 507 - 558) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Dollarization of Liabilities, Net Worth Effects, and Optimal Monetary Policy: Luis Felipe Céspedes, Roberto Chang, Andrés Velasco (p. 559 - 600) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Chaebol Capitalism and the Currency-Financial Crisis in Korea: Anne O. Krueger, Jungho Yoo (p. 601 - 662) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Living with the Fear of Floating: An Optimal Policy Perspective: Amartya Lahiri, Carlos A. Végh (p. 663 - 704) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Policy in an Economy with Balance Sheet Effects: Aaron Tornell (p. 705 - 742) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. A Primer on Emerging-Market Crises: Rudi Dornbusch (p. 743 - 754) (bibliographic info) (download)

List of Contributors, Indexes: Sebastian Edwards, Jeffrey A. Frankel (p. 755 - 770) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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