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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krishnamurthy, Arvind
Other Authors: Caballero, Ricardo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/129
Online Access:Full text available on IMF