Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for “self selection†bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound economic policies and institutions that make them...

Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for “self selection†bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound economic policies and institutions that make them...

Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for “self selection†bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound economic policies and institutions that make them...

The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and...

The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and...

Since the fiscal expansion and real appreciation of the dollar in the early 1980s, widespread attention has focused on the so-called "deindustrialization" and "two-tiered" development of the U.S. economy. This view argues that exchange rate appreciation caused a major resource shift away from...