Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit derivatives markets poses the threat of a crisis similar to the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of...

The causes for the instability that has marked the financial system over the past decade lie deep in the economic theory that urges easy and efficient substitution of one piece of paper for another, in the technology-driven tight articulation of receipts and payments, and in the growth of...

Part I: Keynote Addresses -- 1. Market Discipline and Public Policy : The Role of the IMF / Anne O. Krueger -- 2. Three Observations on Market Discipline / Malcolm Knight -- 3. Effective Market Discipline : The Roles of Auditors, Companies, and Analysts / Susan Schmidt Bies -- 4. A Review of the...