edited by Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel
University of Chicago Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-226-15540-1 | eISBN: 978-0-226-15542-5 Library of Congress Classification HG1496.M36 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 332.491724
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises.
The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society.
Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael P. Dooley is a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the managing editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics.
Jeffrey A. Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Economic Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in International Finance and Macroeconomics. He is the coauthor, most recently, of American Economic Policy in the 1990s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Introduction
Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel
I. THE DEFENSE 1. Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in the Korean, Philippine, and Thai Exchange Rate Crises
Dongchul Cho and Kenneth D. West Comment: Robert Dekle Discussion Summary 2. Interest Rate Defense against Speculative Attack as a Signal: A Primer
Allan Drazen Comment: Robert P. Flood Discussion Summary 3. Does It Pay to Defend against a Speculative Attack?
Barry Eichengreen and Andrew K. Rose Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary
II. THE PROGRAM 4. The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large Is Large Enough?
Olivier Jeanne and Charles Wyplosz Comment: Olivier Blanchard Discussion Summary 5. Rescue Packages and Output Losses Following Crises
Michael P. Dooley and Sujata Verma Comment: Andrew Powell Discussion Summary 6. Financial Restructuring in Banking and Corporate-Sector Crises: What Policies to Pursue?
Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel, and Luc Laeven Comment: Peter B. Kenen Discussion Summary 7. On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises
A. Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo Comment: Kenneth Kletzer Discussion Summary 8. An Evaluation of Proposals to Reform the International Financial Architecture
Morris Goldstein Comment: Andrew Berg Discussion Summary
III. THE IMPACT 9. Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia
Yung Chul Park and Jong-Wha Lee Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary 10. A Cure Worse Than the Disease? Currency Crises and the Output Costs of IMF-Supported Stabilization Programs
Michael M. Hutchison Comment: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti Discussion Summary 11. IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty
William Easterly Comment: Edwin M. Truman Discussion Summary 12. Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor
James Levinsohn, Steven Berry, and Jed Friedman Comment: Lant Pritchett Discussion Summary
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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edited by Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel
University of Chicago Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-226-15540-1 eISBN: 978-0-226-15542-5
The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises.
The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society.
Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael P. Dooley is a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the managing editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics.
Jeffrey A. Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Economic Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in International Finance and Macroeconomics. He is the coauthor, most recently, of American Economic Policy in the 1990s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Introduction
Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel
I. THE DEFENSE 1. Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in the Korean, Philippine, and Thai Exchange Rate Crises
Dongchul Cho and Kenneth D. West Comment: Robert Dekle Discussion Summary 2. Interest Rate Defense against Speculative Attack as a Signal: A Primer
Allan Drazen Comment: Robert P. Flood Discussion Summary 3. Does It Pay to Defend against a Speculative Attack?
Barry Eichengreen and Andrew K. Rose Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary
II. THE PROGRAM 4. The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large Is Large Enough?
Olivier Jeanne and Charles Wyplosz Comment: Olivier Blanchard Discussion Summary 5. Rescue Packages and Output Losses Following Crises
Michael P. Dooley and Sujata Verma Comment: Andrew Powell Discussion Summary 6. Financial Restructuring in Banking and Corporate-Sector Crises: What Policies to Pursue?
Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel, and Luc Laeven Comment: Peter B. Kenen Discussion Summary 7. On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises
A. Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo Comment: Kenneth Kletzer Discussion Summary 8. An Evaluation of Proposals to Reform the International Financial Architecture
Morris Goldstein Comment: Andrew Berg Discussion Summary
III. THE IMPACT 9. Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia
Yung Chul Park and Jong-Wha Lee Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary 10. A Cure Worse Than the Disease? Currency Crises and the Output Costs of IMF-Supported Stabilization Programs
Michael M. Hutchison Comment: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti Discussion Summary 11. IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty
William Easterly Comment: Edwin M. Truman Discussion Summary 12. Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor
James Levinsohn, Steven Berry, and Jed Friedman Comment: Lant Pritchett Discussion Summary
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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