Although Brazil has become one of the largest economies in the world, it remains among the most closed economies as measured by the share of exports and imports in gross domestic product. This feature cannot be explained simply by the size of Brazil's economy. Rather, it is due to an economic...

The paper reviews the so-called "third generation" models of currency crises. After presenting a few selected models from the literature, the paper discusses whether they contribute to the understanding of the recent currency crises in Latin America - in particular the Mexican crisis of 1994 and...