Here are some links to Internet sites of interest for the course.

International Monetary Fund

World Bank

Economagic

We will use for discussion articles from Finance and Development, published by the IMF and The World Bank.

The relevant articles from Finance and Development are the following:

(Click on the titles to go to the article)

From the issue of June 1998 (Volume 35, number 2)

-What lessons Does the Mexican Crisis Hold for the Recovery in Asia?

-The Asian Crisis: Causes and Cures

From the issue of September 1998 (Volume 35, number 3)

-Mitigating the Social Costs of the Asian Crisis

From the issue of September 1999 (Volume 36, number 3)

-Moderating Fluctuations in Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies

-Large Capital Flows: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

From the issue of March 2000 (Volume 37, number 1)

-The Long Road to Financial Stability

From the issue of June 2001 (volume 38, number 2)

-IMF Financing and Moral Hazard

From the issue of September 2002 (Volume 39, number 3)

-Moral Hazard in IMF Loans: How Big a Concern?

Dollarization

The article on dollarization is published on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review and is titled Dollarization as a Monetary Arrangement for Emerging Market Economies.

Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates

A good summary of the main points can be found in Fixed or Flexible? Getting the Exchange Rate Right in the 1990s

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