Desai Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment

From Asia to Argentina
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6537-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. She was president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in 2001. She is author of The Soviet Economy and Perestroika in Perspective.Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. She was president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in 2001. She is author of The Soviet Economy and Perestroika in Perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desai, Padma

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
1. Introduction, pg. 1
2. The U.S. Economy in Transition, pg. 13
3. The Euro: Teething Troubles and Faltering Responses, pg. 46
4. Japan: The Lost Decade of the Nineties amidst Policy Paralysis, pg. 70
5. The Asian Financial Crisis, pg. 86
6. The Asian Crisis Chronology, pg. 119
7. The Ruble Collapses in August 1998, pg. 136
8. Contagion from the Ruble to the Real, pg. 162
9. Beyond Bangkok: Crisis Erupts in Buenos Aires and in the Bosphorus, pg. 172
10. The Contagion, pg. 197
11. International Monetary Fund to the Rescue: How Did It Fare? Badly, pg. 212
12. Crisis Prevention and Containment: The Next Steps in Financial Reform, pg. 263
References, pg. 285
Index, pg. 293

Über Autor(innen)

Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. She was president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in 2001. She is author of The Soviet Economy and Perestroika in Perspective.