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In defense of free capital markets : the case against a new international financial architecture / David F. DeRosa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Bloomberg Press, 2001Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 157660036X
  • 9781576600368
Other title:
  • In defence of free capital markets
  • In defence of free capital markets : The case against a new international financial architecture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.042091724
LOC classification:
  • HG3877. D47 2001
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Financial Policy and the Cycle of Regulation -- The Analysis of Financial Policy -- The Growth of Antimarket Sentiment -- An Alternative View of Crisis and Regulation -- The Demonization of the Foreign Exchange Market -- Chapter 2. Japan's Lost Decade of the 1990s -- The Juggernaut -- On the Reefs -- Beyond Capitalism? -- The Bubble Economy -- A Critique of Japanese Monetary Policy -- Ministerial Diversions -- The Future of Japan's Economy -- Chapter 3. Exploding Foreign Exchange Regimes -- Distortions Arising from Fixed Exchange Rates -- The European Exchange Rate Mechanism Crises: 1992 and 1993 -- Foreign Exchange Crises in Emerging-Market Economies -- The Mexican Peso Crisis: 1994-1995 -- Chapter 4. The Southeast Asian Currency Crisis of 1997 -- The Consequences of the Strong-Dollar Doctrine -- Thailand Kicks It All Off -- Indonesia Follows -- Malaysia Pulls a Fast One -- Chapter 5. Accounting for Contagion -- Singapore Weathers the Storm -- Hong Kong Chooses Crisis -- Panicked Selling of U.S. Equities -- Brazil Squeaks Through -- Korea Learns Finance the Hard Way -- Chapter 6. Exploding Hedge Funds -- Russian Default Spawns a New Crisis -- Hong Kong's Fall from Free-Market Grace -- The LTCM Fiasco and Market Turbulence in Autumn 1998 -- Did the Federal Reserve Overreact to LTCM? -- Chapter 7. Fast Fixes and Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes -- Peg Hard or Float -- Currency Boards -- Dollarization -- Foreign Exchange Target Zones and the Tobin Tax -- The Case for Freely Floating Exchange Rates -- Chapter 8. The Quest for a New Financial Architecture -- Reform Is in the Air -- Statistical Risk Models and the Peso Problem -- Capital Controls and Malaysia's Legacy -- What to Do about the IMF -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Financial Policy and the Cycle of Regulation -- The Analysis of Financial Policy -- The Growth of Antimarket Sentiment -- An Alternative View of Crisis and Regulation -- The Demonization of the Foreign Exchange Market -- Chapter 2. Japan's Lost Decade of the 1990s -- The Juggernaut -- On the Reefs -- Beyond Capitalism? -- The Bubble Economy -- A Critique of Japanese Monetary Policy -- Ministerial Diversions -- The Future of Japan's Economy -- Chapter 3. Exploding Foreign Exchange Regimes -- Distortions Arising from Fixed Exchange Rates -- The European Exchange Rate Mechanism Crises: 1992 and 1993 -- Foreign Exchange Crises in Emerging-Market Economies -- The Mexican Peso Crisis: 1994-1995 -- Chapter 4. The Southeast Asian Currency Crisis of 1997 -- The Consequences of the Strong-Dollar Doctrine -- Thailand Kicks It All Off -- Indonesia Follows -- Malaysia Pulls a Fast One -- Chapter 5. Accounting for Contagion -- Singapore Weathers the Storm -- Hong Kong Chooses Crisis -- Panicked Selling of U.S. Equities -- Brazil Squeaks Through -- Korea Learns Finance the Hard Way -- Chapter 6. Exploding Hedge Funds -- Russian Default Spawns a New Crisis -- Hong Kong's Fall from Free-Market Grace -- The LTCM Fiasco and Market Turbulence in Autumn 1998 -- Did the Federal Reserve Overreact to LTCM? -- Chapter 7. Fast Fixes and Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes -- Peg Hard or Float -- Currency Boards -- Dollarization -- Foreign Exchange Target Zones and the Tobin Tax -- The Case for Freely Floating Exchange Rates -- Chapter 8. The Quest for a New Financial Architecture -- Reform Is in the Air -- Statistical Risk Models and the Peso Problem -- Capital Controls and Malaysia's Legacy -- What to Do about the IMF -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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