ABSTRACT

This is an innovative collection of papers written by a panel of highly respected academics and financial experts. Whilst providing an insight into the phenomenology of the financial crises of the 1990s in Asia and Latin America, the book also explores possibilities for their solution.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Causes and correlates

chapter 1|39 pages

The twin crises

Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen M. Reinhart

chapter 3|25 pages

Financial crisis in the MIT countries

B. N. Ghosh

chapter 4|25 pages

Japanese banking problems

Joe Peek and Eric S. Rosengren

part |2 pages

Part II Cases and caveats