The volatility machine : emerging economies and the threat of financial collapse
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Bibliographic Information
The volatility machine : emerging economies and the threat of financial collapse
Oxford University Press, 2001
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the
1820s to argue that the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that most of the current analyses of the recent financial crises suffered by
Latin America, Asia, and Russia have largely missed the point. He then develops a sovereign finance model, analogous to corporate finance, to understand the capital structure needs of emerging market countries. Using this model, he finally puts into perspective the recent crises, a new sovereign liability management theory, the implications of the model for sovereign debt restructurings, and the new financial architecture.
Bridging the gap between finance specialists and traders, on the one hand, and economists and policy-makers on the other, The Volatility Machine is critical reading for anyone interested in where the international economy is going over the next several years.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Structure of Financial Crises
1: Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990s
2: Market Structure Issues
Part II. Global Liquidity and Capital Flows
3: Why Does Ric-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries?
4: 180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending
5: The Contraction of International Lending
Part III. The Corporate Finance of Crises
6: The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk
7: The Capital Structure Trap
8: Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management
9: Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework
Part IV. Conclusion
10: Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture
Appendix: The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt
Bibliography
Index
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