@techreport{NBERw8087, title = "Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries", author = "Frederic S. Mishkin", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "8087", year = "2001", month = "January", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8087", abstract = {This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It then examines twelve basic areas of financial policies to prevent financial crises: 1) prudential supervision, 2) accounting and disclosure requirements, 3) legal and judicial systems, 4) market-based discipline, 5) entry of foreign banks, 6) capital controls, 7) Reduction of the role of state-owned financial institutions, 8) restrictions on foreign-denominated debt, 9) elimination of too-big-to-fail in the corporate sector, 10) sequencing financial liberalization, 11) monetary policy and price stability, 12) exchange rate regimes and foreign exchange reserves.}, }