Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets Edited by Michael P Dooley and Jeffrey A Frankel The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London M P D is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a managing editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics Professor Dooley joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1992 following more than twenty years’ service at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the International Monetary Fund J A F is the James W Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the Kennedy School of Government and director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research To Rudiger Dornbusch, from whom we have learned so much The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, 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Defense against Speculative Attack as a Signal: A Primer Allan Drazen Comment: Robert P Flood Discussion Summary Does It Pay to Defend against a Speculative Attack? Barry Eichengreen and Andrew K Rose Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary 11 37 61 vii viii Contents II T P The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large Is Large Enough? Olivier Jeanne and Charles Wyplosz Comment: Olivier Blanchard Discussion Summary Rescue Packages and Output Losses Following Crises Michael P Dooley and Sujata Verma Comment: Andrew Powell Discussion Summary 89 125 Financial Restructuring in Banking and CorporateSector Crises: What Policies to Pursue? 147 Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel, and Luc Laeven Comment: Peter B Kenen Discussion Summary On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises A Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo Comment: Kenneth Kletzer Discussion Summary An Evaluation of Proposals to Reform the International Financial Architecture Morris Goldstein Comment: Andrew Berg Discussion Summary 187 225 III T I Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia Yung Chul Park and Jong-Wha Lee Comment: Richard Portes Discussion Summary 10 A Cure Worse Than the Disease? Currency Crises and the Output Costs of IMF-Supported Stabilization Programs Michael M Hutchison Comment: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti Discussion Summary 275 321 Contents 11 IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty William Easterly Comment: Edwin M Truman Discussion Summary 12 Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor James Levinsohn, Steven Berry, and Jed Friedman Comment: Lant Pritchett Discussion Summary Contributors Author Index Subject Index ix 361 393 429 433 437 .. .Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets Edited by Michael P Dooley and Jeffrey A Frankel. .. avoid or minimize crises in emerging- market countries in the first place The corresponding volume is Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, edited by Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A Frankel. .. 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