ABSTRACT

The last decade has seen a massive increase in international capital flows to emerging markets. This development has offered opportunities to those countries that have opened themselves up to overseas capital, but it has also created risks.
In this volume, a team of policymakers and academics from 14 different countries, as well as representatives of the international financial institutions primarily responsible for responding to the crises, examine the challenges and options facing policymakers today. The book includes both detailed analysis of individual economies from around the world and in-depth analysis of the broad systemic issues of why crises occur and how we can prevent them. By looking at economies from many different parts of the world, the book provides a broad and comprehensive look at the similarities and differences in recent financial crises.

part 1|38 pages

Crises in a world of mobile capital

part 2|34 pages

The management and prevention of crises

chapter 4|9 pages

The muddling through of crisis management in Indonesia

A case for central bank independence

chapter 5|15 pages

International policy advice in the East Asian crisis

A critical review of the debate

chapter 6|8 pages

Which short-term debt over reserve ratio works best?

Operationalising the Greenspan Guidotti rule

part 3|77 pages

European experiences

chapter 8|20 pages

Relative resistance to currency crisis

The case of Hungary, comparisons with the Czech Republic and Poland

part 4|38 pages

Latin American crises

part 5|56 pages

The East Asian crisis economies

chapter 12|16 pages

Lessons from Indonesia's crisis

chapter 14|16 pages

The financial crisis in Korea and its aftermath

A political economic perspective *

part 6|37 pages

East Asian experiences with capital controls

chapter 15|23 pages

Capital mobility, crisis and adjustment

Evidence and insights from Malaysia

chapter 16|12 pages

Why was China different?

part 8|12 pages

Conclusions