The article discusses different causes of financial crises and shows that the imputation of reinvested profits of the subsidiaries of foreign firms as a debit item on a host country's balance of payments account tends to overstate the current account deficit and to make the host country seem...

This paper briefly surveys the development of international finance theories after the 1960s. The important theories reviewed in this paper include: exchange rate dynamics, policy pre-announcement, first-generation currency crises, intertemporal optimizing model, exchange rate target zones,...