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Financial crisis management in regional blocs

Title
  1. Financial crisis management in regional blocs / edited by Scheherazade S. Rehman ; [contributors Hossein Askari and others].
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  1. Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional authors
  1. Rehman, Scheherazade S.
  2. Askari, Hossein.
Description
  1. xiii, 355 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Financial crises have occurred throughout history resulting in the loss of national and international public and personal wealth, creating political uncertainty and shaking the foundations of the national, regional and international economic and social order.
  2. This book provides answers to the basic questions of what could have caused some of the more recent regional financial crises, what their key characteristics were, how they could have been prevented, what lessons national governments, central bankers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have learned and how such crises could be prevented in the future.
Subject
  1. International finance
  2. Financial crises
Contents
  1. Introduction / Scheherazade S. Rehman -- Pt. I. History and Background. 1. Managing Financial Crises: Who's In Charge? / Howard Curtis Reed -- Pt. II. European Union and Other Regional Exchange Rate Arrangements. 2. Monetary Unions In Europe / Sir Alan Walters. 3. Financial Crisis Management In The EU/ERM / Hans Tietmeyer. 4. Italy: Two Foreign Exchange Crises / Roberto Rinaldi and Carlo Santini. 5. The Single Currency As A Stabilizing Factor in International Relations: A French View / Andre de Lattre. 6. EMU And The Swiss Franc / Kaspar Villiger. 7. Exchange Rate And Economic Policy In Three Regional Blocs: The EU, The GCC And The CFA / Franco Modigliani and Hossein Askari -- Pt. III. The Mexican Crises and the Tequila Effect. 8. The Mexican Financial Crisis Of 1994-95: An Asymmetric Information Analysis / Frederic S. Mishkin. 9. The Argentine Banking Panic After The "Tequila" Shock: Did "Convertibility" Help Or Hurt? / Roque B. Fernandez and Liliana Schumacher --
  2. Pt. IV. The Transforming Economies. 10. The Consolidation Of Russian Banking: The Big Picture / Jacob Nell. 11. Managing Financial Turbulence: Czech Experience / Josef Tosovsky. 12. Stabilization Without Recession: The Success Of A Long Awaited Financial Adjustment In Hungary / Lajos Bokros -- Pt. V. Special Topics: Public Debt and War. 13. Self-Fulfilling Public Debt Crises / Daniel Gros. 14. The Impact Of The Iraqi Invasion On The Kuwaiti Banking And Financial System: Lessons Learned From A Financial Crisis / Salem Abdul Aziz Al-Sabah -- Pt. VI. The Role of the IMF. 15. Financial Crisis Management And The Role Of The IMF: 1970-1995 / Age F. P. Bakker and Arend J. Kapteyn. 16. The Role Of The International Monetary Fund In Promoting Stability In The Global Economy / Philippe Maystadt -- Pt. VII. Summary and Conclusions. Scheherazade S. Rehman.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.