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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823678703321

Autore

Pettis Michael

Titolo

The volatility machine : emerging economies and the threat of financial collapse / / Michael Pettis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-771070-0

0-19-988171-5

1-280-83525-7

0-19-534948-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

336.3/435

Soggetti

Capital

Debts, External

Financial crises

International finance

Loans, Foreign

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Structure of Financial Crises; 1. Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990's; 2. Market Structure Issues; Part II: Global Liquidity and Capital Flows; 3. Why Does Rich-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries?; 4. 180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending; 5. The Contraction of International Lending; Part III: The Corporate Finance of Crises; 6. The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk; 7. The Capital Structure Trap; 8. Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management

9. Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework Part IV: Conclusion; 10. Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture; Appendix: The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a radically different argument for what has caused and likely will continue to cause the collapse of emerging market economies. It explains how capital structures in emerging markets can be correlated or inverted.