Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CRISIS-PREVENTION FACILITY -- III. THE BASIC MODEL -- IV. LAISSEZ-FAIRE -- V. EXISTING CRISIS-LENDING FACILITIES -- VI. TIMING-BASED CRISIS-LENDING FACILITY -- VII. EXTENSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX I --...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE BASIC MODEL -- III. SIMULTANEOUS VERSUS SEQUENTIAL LIQUIDITY SHORTAGES -- IV. EARLY VERSUS LATE BAILOUTS -- V. POLITICAL ECONOMY -- VI. EXTENSIONS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- References.

Edited by David T. Coe and Se-Jik Kim, this volume contains papers presented at a May 2001 conference in Seoul sponsored by the IMF and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy on the Korean Crisis and Recovery. The papers examine the response to the 1997 crisis, its long-term...

This paper addresses the growth, welfare, and distributional effects of credit markets. We construct a general equilibrium model where human capital is the engine of growth and individuals differ in their education abilities. We argue that the existence of credit markets encourages...

This paper presents a multisector growth model where education enhances general human capital, which is essential for increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that education, combined with international trade, can affect growth positively in the long...

In a rational-expectations framework, we model depositors'' confidence as a function of the probability of future bank bailouts. We analyze the effect of alternative bank bailout policies on depositors'' confidence in an emerging market setting, where liquidity shortages of banks are revealed...

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of interenterprise arrears, characterized by n-stage production technology with random productivity shocks. The model shows that large interenterprise arrears in transition economies may reflect substantial business risks in those countries and...