1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451126303321

Titolo

Currency crises [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paul Krugman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2000

ISBN

1-281-22374-3

9786611223748

0-226-45464-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Altri autori (Persone)

KrugmanPaul R

Disciplina

332.4/5

Soggetti

Currency question - History - 20th century

Financial crises - History - 20th century

Foreign exchange - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Currency Crisis and Unemployment: Sterling in 1931 -- 2. Political Contagion in Currency Crises -- 3. Balance-of-Payments Crises in Emerging Markets: Large Capital Inflows and Sovereign Governments -- 4. The Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis -- 5. Is Launching the Euro Unstable in the Endgame? -- 6. The Mexican Peso in the Aftermath of the 1994 Currency Crisis -- 7. The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup: Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch? -- 8. Current Account Reversals and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities -- 9. Panel Presentation: The Asian Model, the Miracle, the Crisis, and the Fund -- 10. Panel Presentation: Involving the Private Sector in Crisis Resolution -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

There is no universally accepted definition of a currency crisis, but most would agree that they all involve one key element: investors fleeing a currency en masse out of fear that it might be devalued, in turn fueling the very devaluation they anticipated. Although such crises-the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980's, the speculations on European currencies in the early 1990's, and the ensuing Mexican, South American, and Asian crises-have played a central role in world



affairs and continue to occur at an alarming rate, many questions about their causes and effects remain to be answered. In this wide-ranging volume, some of the best minds in economics focus on the historical and theoretical aspects of currency crises to investigate three fundamental issues: What drives currency crises? How should government behavior be modeled? And what are the actual consequences to the real economy? Reflecting the latest thinking on the subject, this offering from the NBER will serve as a useful basis for further debate on the theory and practice of speculative attacks, as well as a valuable resource as new crises loom.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789039703321

Autore

Ashby M. F

Titolo

Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design / Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Elsevier Science ; Butterworth-Heinemann, cop. 2014

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

IX, 389 s : ill

Disciplina

620.11

Soggetti

Materials

Industrial design

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Industrial & Management Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph