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Title

Money, crises, and transition : essays in honor of Guillermo A. Calvo / edited by Carmen M. Reinhart, Carlos A. Végh, Andrés Velasco.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Calvo, Guillermo A.
• Reinhart, Carmen M.
• Végh Gramont, Carlos A., 1958-
• Velasco, Andrés.

Description

xix, 491 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Financial crises
• Monetary policy
• International finance
• Foreign exchange rates

Bibliography (note)

• "Publications of Guillermo A. Calvo": p. [463]-469.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Theory -- 1. Pricing-to-Market, the Interest-Rate Rule, and the Exchange Rate / Maurice Obstfeld -- 2. Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes: Turning Mundell-Fleming's Dictum on Its Head / Amartya Lahiri, Rajesh Singh and Carlos A. Vegh -- 3. Monetary Policy Rules, the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, and (Almost) All that Jazz: In Quest of Simplicity / Leonardo Auernheimer -- II. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Practice -- 4. Can Inflation Targeting Work in Emerging Market Countries? / Frederic S. Mishkin -- 5. Why Should Emerging Economies Give up National Currencies? A Case for "Institutions Substitution" / Enrique G. Mendoza -- 6. Hard Currency Pegs and Economic Performance / Sebastian Edwards and I. Igal Magendzo -- III. Financial Crises -- 7. Asset Prices and Self-Fulfilling Macroeconomic Pessimism / Andres Velasco and Alejandro Neut -- 8. The Center and the Periphery: The Globalization of Financial Turmoil / Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen Reinhart -- 9. Why Do Some Countries Recover More Readily from Financial Crises? / Padma Desai and Pritha Mitra -- IV. Debt, Taxation, and Reforms -- 10. Government Debt: A Key Role in Financial Intermediation / Michael Kumhof and Evan Tanner -- 11. Capital Income Taxation in the Globalized World / Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka -- 12. Can Public Discussion Enhance Program "Ownership"? / Allan Drazen and Peter Isard -- V. Transition and Growth -- 13. Sources and Obstacles for Growth in Transition Countries: The Role of Credit / Fabrizio Coricelli, Bostjan Jazbec and Igor Masten -- 14. Growth in Transition Economies: Domestic Policies, External Assistance, and Institution Building / Stanley Fischer and Ratna Sahay -- 15. Growth Collapses / Ricardo Hausmann, Francisco Rodriguez and Rodrigo Wagner -- VI. The Man Behind the Mind -- 16. The Columbia Years / Edmund S. Phelps -- 17. The Practitioner / Roque B. Fernandez -- 18. In His Own Words: An Interview with Guillermo Calvo / Enrique G. Mendoza.

ISBN

• 9780262182669 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262182661 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007039868
• 40015873416

OCLC

• ocn173509393
• 173509393
• SCSB-9054590

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries