In this dissertation, I study international financial crises. For this purpose, I build two models. In the first model, I focus on financial crises in developing, large open economies where foreign debt with various maturities and issue dates is available. The objective is to measure the...

My research focuses on the reasons for banking crises and the corresponding policy rulesthat could help prevent such crises. This abstract briefly reviews the two essays in mydissertation. The first essay focuses on the optimal mechanism design of the depositinsurance system while the second...

How do institutional arrangements in banking affect the occurrence of crises?The first two chapters present an endeavor in using new modeling techniques toanswer this question. Even if the results are not widely accepted, the way inwhich the problem is tackled here is offered for consideration...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: Economics. Advisor: V. V. Chari. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 54 pages, appendices A-B.

La literatura académica reciente muestra que los bancos están expuestos a pánicos sobre sus líneas de crédito. Durante estos pánicos, las empresas retiran fondos de sus líneas de crédito por miedo a restricciones crediticias futuras. En este trabajo usamos los resultados de las pruebas...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2245

Purpose – This study examines the complex financial and reporting regulation that will oversee and monitor the veracity of newly commoditised carbon financial products traded in the proposed cap and trade Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), the government’s centrepiece of a...

This Article, a sequel to earlier articles by the author on financial regulation and global finance, retrieves and updates J. M. Keynes’s original International Clearing Union plan for what ultimately became the International Monetary Fund (“IMF,” “Fund”).  Its motives are not...

The concept of compliance has developed over recent years. Gone are the days when satisfactory compliance in a bank consisted of making sure that a set of rules provided by a regulator had been met and each could be 'ticked off' and that appropriate returns had been sent in. Now the accepted...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and discuss current literature on crisis management within organisational settings. The key characteristic of a crisis is that you cannot control it that’s why they call it crisis “management”. In order to be able to manage crises effectively and...