Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How Financial Liberalization Led in the 1990s to Three Different Cycles of ‘Manias, Panics and Crashes’ in Middle-Income Countries
- 3 Timing the Mexican 1994–95 Financial Crisis using a Markov Switching Approach
- 4 Exchange Rates, Growth and Inflation: What If the Income Elasticities of Trade Flows Respond to Relative Prices?
- 5 Alternative Measures of Currency and Asset Substitution: The Case of Turkey
- 6 Competitive Diversification in Resource Abundant Countries: Argentina after the Collapse of the Convertibility Regime
- 7 Foreign Portfolio Investment, Stock Market and Economic Development: A Case Study in India
- 8 Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of Research and Development Activities in Developing Countries: The Relative Importance of Affiliates in Asia and Latin America
- 9 External Debt Nationalization as a Major Tendency on Brazilian External Debt in the Twentieth Century: The Shifting Character of the State during Debt Crisis
- 10 Prudential Regulation and Safety Net: Recent Transformations in Brazil
- 11 Re-crafting Bilateral Investment Treaties in a Development Framework: A Comparative Regional Perspective
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How Financial Liberalization Led in the 1990s to Three Different Cycles of ‘Manias, Panics and Crashes’ in Middle-Income Countries
- 3 Timing the Mexican 1994–95 Financial Crisis using a Markov Switching Approach
- 4 Exchange Rates, Growth and Inflation: What If the Income Elasticities of Trade Flows Respond to Relative Prices?
- 5 Alternative Measures of Currency and Asset Substitution: The Case of Turkey
- 6 Competitive Diversification in Resource Abundant Countries: Argentina after the Collapse of the Convertibility Regime
- 7 Foreign Portfolio Investment, Stock Market and Economic Development: A Case Study in India
- 8 Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of Research and Development Activities in Developing Countries: The Relative Importance of Affiliates in Asia and Latin America
- 9 External Debt Nationalization as a Major Tendency on Brazilian External Debt in the Twentieth Century: The Shifting Character of the State during Debt Crisis
- 10 Prudential Regulation and Safety Net: Recent Transformations in Brazil
- 11 Re-crafting Bilateral Investment Treaties in a Development Framework: A Comparative Regional Perspective
Summary
The introduction to this volume was first written in August 2008 with this opening paragraph: ‘The global economy is reeling under one of the severest crises since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with record high oil prices, the global food crisis and a financial crisis, reverberating across the globe. As the US economy slides deeper towards a full-fledged recession, precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the ability of financial markets to play havoc with the “real” economy could not have been more apparent. While some commentators, especially those associated with the mainstream media, are still debating the extent of the downturn in the US economy and defending the innovative aspects of financial markets, inside the US, the grim reality seems to have hit home. The implications of the collapse of the housing boom, the associated collapse of major banks with high exposure in the housing markets, coupled with the financial burden of the Iraq war has meant rising unemployment, cut back in consumer spending and overall economic downturn, with no signs of reversal in sight. These events bring to the fore the myriad connections between the “real” and the “financial” – and point to the urgency of understanding these connections, especially in the present era of globalization and financial deregulation.’
Exactly a year later, with a series of bank collapses, as the developed economies grapple with stimulus/rescue packages and bail-out measures to counter the cascading impact of lay-offs and closures, the debate is not whether this is a recession but on how bad it will get before it starts to get better.
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- Capital Without BordersChallenges to Development, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010