Introduction : global market integration, financial crises and policy imperatives / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang -- Reform of the international financial architecture : what has been written? / Jonathan Story -- Costs and benefits of financial globalisation : concepts, evidence and...

Part I: Keynote Addresses -- 1. Market Discipline and Public Policy : The Role of the IMF / Anne O. Krueger -- 2. Three Observations on Market Discipline / Malcolm Knight -- 3. Effective Market Discipline : The Roles of Auditors, Companies, and Analysts / Susan Schmidt Bies -- 4. A Review of the...

The contributions to this volume offer an insight into the way that economists analyse the causes of money (mis)management in the US, Latin America, Europe and Japan, and prescribe stabilizing reforms. The mechanisms that link monetary policy - including foreign exchange regimes and the...