Volatility Machine Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse

Name: Volatility Machine Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse
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ISBN: 9780195143300

ISBN-10: 0195143302

ISBN-13: 9780195143300

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael Pettis

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This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the 1820s to arguethat the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Introduction



The Structure of Financial Crises



Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990s



Market Structure Issues



Global Liquidity and Capital Flows



Why Does Ric-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries?



180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending



The Contraction of International Lending



The Corporate Finance of Crises



The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk



The Capital Structure Trap



Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management



Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework



Conclusion



Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture


Appendix: The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt


Bibliography


Index