Money, Capital Mobility, and Trade -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Nobel Prize Background Survey -- Introduction -- The International Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Two- Country Model -- The Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic: The Role of Gold in the International...

The essays brought together in this volume share a common objective: To bring a unifying methodological approach to the analysis of financial problems in developing, open economies. While the primary focus is on contemporary Latin America, the methods employed and the lessons learned are of...

The 1990s witnessed several acute currency crises among developing nations that invariably spread to other nearby at-risk countries. These episodes—in Mexico, Thailand, South Korea, Russia, and Brazil—were all exacerbated by speculative foreign investments and high-volume movements of...

In spite of the attention paid exchange rates in recent economic debates on developing countries, relatively few studies have systematically analyzed in detail the various ramifications of exchange rate policy in these countries. In this new volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research,...