Emerging Markets Crisis : An Asset Markets Perspective /

The entire difference between a mild downturn and a devastating crisis is the occurrence of sharp fire sales of domestic assets and possibly foreign exchange and the ensuing collapse in the balance sheets of both the financial and nonfinancial sector. Why and how do such crises materialize? And why...

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Autore principale: Krishnamurthy, Arvind
Altri autori: Caballero, Ricardo
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/129
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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