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September 2004
7 x 9, 385 pp., 35 illus.
$26.00/£19.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-55059-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-55059-8

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Capital Flows and Crises
Barry Eichengreen

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The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth.

Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation and the rate of economic growth. But analyses of both recent and historical experience also show an undeniable association between capital mobility and crises, especially when domestic institutions are weak and the harmonization of capital account liberalization and other policy reforms is inadequate. In his conclusion, Eichengreen makes suggestions for policy design to maximize the benefits of international financial liberalization while minimizing the risks of financial instability.

About the Author

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press, 2006) and other books.


Endorsements

"This collection is a tour de force of applied economic history. Barry Eichengreen's theoretically informed essays on the causes and consequences of past crises set up his useful advice on managing those of the present."
—Kenneth Oye, Center for International Studies and Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology





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