Debt, stabilization and development : essays in memory of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro

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Debt, stabilization and development : essays in memory of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro

edited by Guillermo Calvo ... [et al.]

B. Blackwell, 1989

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Papers from a conference held at WIDER in 1986

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This volume consists of 18 essays dedicated to the memory of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro on topics that reflect his interests and contributions to the history and theory of international trade and economic development. The issues covered include historical perspectives on the LDC debt crisis and proposals for its solution, stabilization problems in the Southern Cone of Latin America, and new approaches in open economy macroeconomics, the theory of international trade and economic development. This volume is based on a conference held in honour of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro under the auspices of the World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER).

Table of Contents

  • Lal Jayawardena Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, An Appreciation, G. Ranis
  • From Graduate Student to Professional Peer, C.P. Kindleberger. Part 1 International Lending and the Deby Crisis - Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Solutions: Lessons of the 1890s for the 1980s, A. Fishlow. House Calls of the Money Doctor - The Kemmerer Missions to Latin America, 1917-1931, B. Eichengreen
  • The Debt Overhang of Developing Countries, J. Sachs
  • International Capital Movements - Theory and Measurements: Country Risk and the Organization of International Capital Transfer, J. Eaton and J.Gersovitz. How Integrated are World Capital Markets? Some New Tests, M. Obstfeld. Liberalization of Trade and Exchange Controls: Economic Liberalization and the Real Exchange Rate in Developing Countries, S. Edwards
  • Smuggler's Blues at the Central Bank - lessons from Sudan, W. Branson and J. Braga de Macedo
  • Stabilization and Economic Reform - Incredible Reforms, G. Calvo
  • Policy Reforms and External Shocks in the Southern Cone - A Reassessment, V. Corbo and J. de Melo
  • The Relevance for Developing Countries of Recent Developements in Macroeconomic Theory, W. M. Corden Indian Macroeconomic Policies, I.M.D. Little and V. Joshi. New Developments in Open Economy Macroeconomics: New Channels in Transmission of Foreign Shocks, E. Phelps
  • Trade, Capital Flows and Dynamics of the Real Exchange Rate, P. Kouri
  • International Trade, Factor Mobility and Development
  • The New Trade Theory and the Developing Countries, P. Krugman
  • Policy-induced Inflows of Foreign Capital in the Presence of Rigid Wage Unemployment, R. Brecher
  • North-South Models and the Evolution of Global Interdependence, R. Findlay
  • Technological Progress and Socio-Economic Structure, J. Stiglitz and R. Sah.

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