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