Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Finance, Institutions, and Industrial Change: Spatial Perspectives -- 2 Financial Markets and Industrial Change -- 3 Sovereign Risk Analysis: A Qualitative Approach -- 4 Corporate Raiders: The Case...

I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...

Export Credit Agencies or Exim Banks play a vital role in promoting and facilitating exports. Such services are essential to exporters if they are to compete effectively in the global market. However, emerging markets of Asia depend on financing from industrial economies and this has risks. Such...